After a period as a lecturer at Cambridge, Raven moved to the University of Dundee in 1971, and he remained at Dundee until his formal retirement in 2008. He was appointed there to a [[Chair (academic)#The United Kingdom.2C Ireland and other English speaking countries|personal chair]] in 1980, and was the John Boyd Baxter Professor of Biology from 1995 until 2008.<ref name="symposium">{{cite web |url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressreleases/2008/prsept08/johnraven.html |title=Symposium to mark retiral of Professor John Raven |date=11 September 2008 |work= |publisher=University of Dundee |accessdate=2013-03-23}}</ref> In 1978, Raven was a co-founding editor of the influential [[peer review]]ed [[scientific journal]] ''[[Plant, Cell & Environment]]'' with [[Paul Gordon Jarvis|Paul Jarvis]],<ref name=pce2>{{cite doijournal|last1=Smith|first1=Harry|title=Paul Gordon Jarvis, FRS: co-founding editor ofPlant, Cell & Environment|journal=Plant, Cell & Environment|volume=36|issue=5|year=2013|pages=907–908|issn=01407791|doi=10.1111/pce.12080|noedit}}</ref> David Jennings, Harry Smith<ref name=smith>{{cite doijournal|last1=Smith|first1=Harry|title=Editorial|journal=Plant, Cell and Environment|volume=1|issue=1|year=1978|pages=1–1|issn=0140-7791|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3040.1978.tb00738.x|noedit}}</ref><ref name="Raven2015">{{cite doijournal|last1=Raven|first1=John A.|title=Harry Smith, FRS: co-founding editor and first Chief Editor ofPlant, Cell & Environment|journal=Plant, Cell & Environment|volume=38|issue=8|year=2015|pages=1453–1454|issn=01407791|doi=10.1111/pce.12567|noedit}}</ref> and Bob Campbell.<ref name=bob>{{cite web |title=Wiley-Blackwell Announces Retirement of Bob Campbell |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330101626/http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-107769.html |date=2013-02-28 |archivedate=2016-03-30 |url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-107769.html |publisher=wiley.com}}</ref>
