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Alice Roberts

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Roberts in January 2016
Born
Alice May Roberts

(1973-05-19) 19 May 1973 (age 50)
Bristol, England
NationalityEnglish
Education The Red Maids' School
Alma mater University of Wales (BSc, MB BCh)
University of Bristol (PhD)
Known for
SpouseDavid Stevens (m. 2009)
Children2
Scientific career
Fields [1]
Institutions University of Birmingham
National Health Service
British Broadcasting Corporation
University of Wales
University of Bristol
Thesis Rotator cuff disease in humans and apes : a palaeopathological and evolutionary perspective on shoulder pathology  (2008)
Website www.alice-roberts.co.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Alice May Roberts FRSB (born 19 May 1973) [2] is an English academic, TV presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She was president of the charity Humanists UK between January 2019 and May 2022. [3] She is now a vice president of the organisation. [4]

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Early life and education

Roberts was born in Bristol in 1973, [5] the daughter of an aeronautical engineer and an English and arts teacher. [6] She grew up in the Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym where she attended The Red Maids' School. [5] [7] [8] In December 1988, she won the BBC1 Blue Peter Young Artists competition, appearing with her picture and the presenters on the front cover of the 10 December 1988 edition of the Radio Times . [9]

Roberts studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine (now part of Cardiff University) and graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BCh) degree, having gained an intercalated Bachelor of Science degree in Anatomy. [7] [10] [11]

Research and career

Roberts giving a public lecture for the opening of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath in 2018 Alice Roberts, 2018.jpg
Roberts giving a public lecture for the opening of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath in 2018

After graduating, Roberts worked as a junior doctor with the National Health Service in South Wales for 18 months. In 1998 she left clinical medicine and worked as an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Bristol, becoming a lecturer there in 1999. [5] [7] [12]

She spent seven years working part-time on her PhD in paleopathology, receiving the degree in 2008. [5] [7] [13] She was a senior teaching fellow at the University of Bristol Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy, where her main roles were teaching clinical anatomy, embryology and physical anthropology, as well as researching osteoarchaeology and paleopathology. [7] [10] [14] She stated in 2009 that she was working towards becoming a professor of anatomy. [15]

In 2009 she co-presented modules for the Beating Bipolar programme, the first online treatment package for bipolar depression, trialled by Cardiff University researchers. A clinical trial began in June 2009 involving about 100 patients with bipolar disorder in South Wales. [16]

From August 2009 until January 2012, Roberts was a visiting fellow in both the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Department of Anatomy of the University of Bristol. [10] [17] [18] From 2009 to 2016 Roberts was Director of Anatomy at the NHS Severn Deanery School of Surgery [11] and also an honorary fellow at Hull York Medical School. [19] [20]

In February 2012 Roberts was appointed the University of Birmingham's first Professor of Public Engagement in Science. [21] [22] [23]

Roberts has been a member of the advisory board of Cheltenham Science Festival for 10 years and a member of the Advisory Board of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath since 2018. [24]

Writing in the i newspaper in 2016, Roberts dismissed the aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH) as a distraction "from the emerging story of human evolution that is more interesting and complex", adding that AAH has become "a theory of everything" that is simultaneously "too extravagant and too simple". She concluded by saying that "science is about evidence, not wishful thinking". [25] [26]

Roberts and Aoife McLysaght co-presented the 2018 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in London. [24] [27] She was president of the British Science Association for the year 2019–2020. [28]

In January 2021 Roberts presented a 10-part narrative history series about the human body entitled Bodies on BBC Radio 4. [29]

Television career

A presenter of science and history television documentaries, Roberts was one of the regular co-presenters of the BBC geographical and environmental series Coast . [30]

Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode, [31] [32] working on Anglo-Saxon burials at Breamore, Hampshire. She served as a bone specialist and general presenter in many episodes, including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology. In August 2006, a Time Team special episode Big Royal Dig investigated archaeology of Britain's royal palaces; Roberts was one of the main presenters.

Roberts wrote and presented a BBC Two series on anatomy and health entitled Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young, which was broadcast from January 2007. [33] She presented a five-part series on human evolution and early human migrations for that channel entitled The Incredible Human Journey , beginning on 10 May 2009. [34] In September 2009, she co-presented (with Mark Hamilton) A Necessary Evil?, a one-hour documentary about the Burke and Hare murders. [35]

In August 2010, she presented a one-hour documentary on BBC Four, Wild Swimming, inspired by Roger Deakin's book Waterlog. [36] Roberts presented a four-part BBC Two series on archaeology in August–September 2010, Digging for Britain . [37] [38] Roberts explained, "We're taking a fresh approach by showing British archaeology as it's happening out in the field, from the excitement of artefacts as they come out of the ground, through to analysing them in the lab and working out what they tell us about human history." [39] The series returned in 2011 and again (on BBC Four) in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. [40]

In March 2011, she presented a BBC documentary in the Horizon series entitled Are We Still Evolving? [41] Later in 2011, she presented another BBC documentary called How to Build a Dinosaur, [42] which aired on BBC4 on 21 September 2011.

She presented the series Origins of Us , which aired on BBC Two in October 2011, examining how the human body has adapted through seven million years of evolution. [43] The last part of this series featured Roberts visiting the Rift Valley in East Africa.

In April 2012, Roberts presented Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice on BBC Two. [44] From 22 to 24 October 2012, she appeared, with co-presenter Dr George McGavin, in the BBC series Prehistoric Autopsy , [45] which discussed the remains of early hominins such as Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Australopithecus afarensis . In May and June 2013 she presented the BBC Two series Ice Age Giants . [46] In September 2014, she was a presenter on the Horizon programme Is Your Brain Male or Female? [47]

In October 2014, she presented Spider House. [48] In 2015, she co-presented a 3-part BBC TV documentary with Neil Oliver entitled The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice [49] and wrote a book to tie in with the series: The Celts: Search for a Civilisation. [50] In April–May 2016, she co-presented the BBC Two programme Food Detectives which looked at food nutrition and its effects on the body. In August 2016, she presented the BBC Four documentary Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time, which explored the Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire. [51] In May 2017, she was a presenter of the BBC Two documentary The Day The Dinosaurs Died. [52] In April 2018, she presented the six-part Channel 4 series Britain's Most Historic Towns , [53] which examines the history of British towns, which was followed by a second series in May 2019 and a third series in November 2020.

In September 2018, she presented the BBC Two documentary King Arthur's Britain: The Truth Unearthed, which examines new archaeological discoveries that cast light on the political and trading situation in Britain during the Early Middle Ages. [54] In December 2018, she presented a series of three Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, titled Who am I? and broadcast on BBC Four, with guest lecturer Aoife McLysaght. [27]

On 4 August 2020, Roberts was the guest on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific . [55] Aired as a three-part series in September 2020, Roberts co-presented the BBC's The Big Dig focusing on the finds at St. James's Park in London and Park Street in Birmingham.

On 12 February 2021, Roberts presented a one-hour BBC Two documentary, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, [56] about Mike Parker Pearson's five-year-long quest that filled in a 400-year historical gap in the provenance of the bluestones of Stonehenge and Waun Mawn. [57] [58] [59]

On 14 March 2022, Curse Of The Ancients with Alice Roberts, a five-part documentary series presented by Roberts premiered on Sky History. [60] In October Roberts presented Royal Autopsy, a two-part documentary series shown on Sky History; a second series was commissioned in November 2023. [61] The series examined the deaths of Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles II, and then Queen Anne, Queen Mary I, King Henry IV and King George IV. [62]

In March and April 2023, Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Fortress Britain with Alice Roberts. [63] In June Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts. [64]

Awards and honours

In 2011, Roberts was elected an honorary fellow of the British Science Association, [22] and a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. [65] In 2014, she was selected by the Science Council as one of their leading UK practising scientists. [66] During 2014, she was President of The Association for Science Education, [66] and presented the Morgan-Botti lecture. [67]

Roberts has received honorary doctorates (DSc) from Royal Holloway, University of London; Bournemouth University; [65] the Open University and the University of Leeds; [68] honorary Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the University of Sussex; [69] and honorary Doctor of Education from the University of Bath. [70]

In 2019, she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Cardiff University. [71]

Roberts was awarded British Humanist of the Year 2015, for work promoting the teaching of evolution in schools. [72]

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015. [73]

In 2020, Roberts won the Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture. [74]

On 22 May 2022, Roberts unveiled the Statue of Mary Anning at Lyme Regis; the statue was the result of a crowdfunded campaign ("Mary Anning Rocks") to commission and display a statue to the paleontologist Mary Anning in Lyme Regis. [75]

Personal life

Roberts at the unveiling of a Statue of Mary Anning in Lyme Regis in Dorset, May 2022 Mary Anning Unveiling.jpg
Roberts at the unveiling of a Statue of Mary Anning in Lyme Regis in Dorset, May 2022

Roberts lives with her husband, David Stevens, and two children, a daughter born in 2010 and a son born in 2013. [76] She met her husband in Cardiff in 1995 when she was a medical student and he was an archaeology student. [77] [5] They married in 2009. [78]

She is a pescatarian, [79] "a confirmed atheist" [80] and former president of Humanists UK, beginning her three-and-a-half-year term in January 2019. [81] [28] She is now a vice president of the organisation. [4] Her children were assigned a faith school due to over-subscription of her local community schools; she campaigns against state-funded religious schools, citing her story as an example of the problems perpetuated by faith schools. [82]

Roberts enjoys watercolour painting, surfing, wild swimming, cycling, gardening and pub quizzes. [5] Roberts is an organiser of the Cheltenham Science Festival and school outreach programmes within the University of Bristol's Medical Sciences Division. [7] In March 2007, she hosted the Bristol Medical School's charity dance show Clicendales 2007, to raise funds for the charity CLIC Sargent. [83]

Roberts took her baby daughter with her when touring for the six-month filming of the first series of Digging for Britain in 2010. [39]

In March 2024 Roberts was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs , where her musical choices included "Monkey Gone to Heaven" by the Pixies, "Temple of Love" by The Sisters of Mercy, and "Sugar" by System of a Down. [84]

Publications

Roberts is an author. [85] [86] [87] She has authored or co-authored a number of peer reviewed scientific articles in journals. [1] [88] [89] [90] [91] Her published books include:

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