1. Alice May Roberts was born on 19 May 1973 and is an English academic, TV presenter and author.
38 Facts About Alice Roberts
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Alice Roberts was president of the charity Humanists UK from January 2019 to May 2022, and is a vice-president of the organisation.
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Alice Roberts grew up in the Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym, where she attended the private Red Maids' School.
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Alice Roberts studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine and graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree, having gained an intercalated Bachelor of Science degree in anatomy.
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Alice Roberts spent seven years working part-time on her PhD in paleopathology, receiving the degree in 2008.
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Alice Roberts 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.
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Alice Roberts stated in 2009 that she was working towards becoming a professor of anatomy.
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From August 2009 until January 2012, Alice Roberts was a visiting fellow in both the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Department of Anatomy of the University of Bristol.
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From 2009 to 2016 Alice Roberts was Director of Anatomy at the NHS Severn Deanery School of Surgery and an honorary fellow at Hull York Medical School.
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In February 2012, Alice Roberts was appointed the University of Birmingham's first Professor of Public Engagement in Science.
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Alice 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.
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Alice Roberts concluded by saying that "science is about evidence, not wishful thinking".
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In January 2021, Alice Roberts presented a 10-part narrative history series about the human body entitled Bodies on BBC Radio 4.
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Alice Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode, working on Anglo-Saxon burials at Breamore, Hampshire.
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Alice Roberts served as a bone specialist and general presenter in many episodes, including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology.
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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.
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Alice Roberts 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.
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Alice Roberts 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.
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The last part of this series featured Alice Roberts visiting the Rift Valley in East Africa.
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On 4 August 2020, Alice Roberts was the guest on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.
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On 12 February 2021, Alice Roberts presented a one-hour BBC Two documentary, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, 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.
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In October Alice Roberts presented Royal Autopsy, a two-part documentary series shown on Sky History; a second series was commissioned in November 2023.
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Alice Roberts presented the second series of Royal Autopsy that aired during April 2024.
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In May 2024, Alice Roberts presented the documentary The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelations, which aired on Channel 5.
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In 2011, Alice Roberts was elected an honorary fellow of the British Science Association, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
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Alice Roberts has received honorary doctorates from Royal Holloway, University of London; Bournemouth University; the Open University and the University of Leeds; honorary Doctor of Medicine from the University of Sussex; and honorary Doctor of Education from the University of Bath.
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Alice Roberts was awarded British Humanist of the Year 2015, for work promoting the teaching of evolution in schools.
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In 2020, Alice Roberts won the Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture.
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On 22 May 2022, Alice Roberts unveiled the Statue of Mary Anning at Lyme Regis; the statue was the result of a crowdfunded campaign to commission and display a statue to the paleontologist Mary Anning in Lyme Regis.
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Alice Roberts lives with her husband, David Stevens, and two children, a daughter born in 2010 and a son born in 2013.
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Alice Roberts met her husband in Cardiff in 1995 when she was a medical student and he was an archaeology student.
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Alice Roberts is a pescatarian, "a confirmed atheist" and former president of Humanists UK, beginning her three-and-a-half-year term in January 2019.
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Alice Roberts is a vice president of the organisation.
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Alice Roberts's 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.
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Alice Roberts enjoys watercolour painting, surfing, wild swimming, cycling, gardening and pub quizzes.
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Alice Roberts is an organiser of the Cheltenham Science Festival and school outreach programmes within the University of Bristol's Medical Sciences Division.
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Alice Roberts took her baby daughter with her when touring for the six-month filming of the first series of Digging for Britain in 2010.
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Alice Roberts has authored or co-authored a number of peer reviewed scientific articles in journals.