Alice Roberts
Alice Roberts was born in Bristol, England, United Kingdom on May 19th, 1973 and is the Paleontologist. At the age of 50, Alice Roberts biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Alice May Roberts (born 19 May 1973) is an English biological anthropologist, biologist, television presenter and author.
Since 2012 she has been Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham.
Since 2019, she has been President of the charity Humanists UK, which campaigns for state secularism and for "a tolerant world where rational thinking and kindness prevail".
Early life and education
Roberts was born in Bristol in 1973, the daughter of an aeronautical engineer and an English and arts teacher. She grew up in the Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym where she attended The Red Maids' School. 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.
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.
Personal life
Roberts lives with her husband, David Stevens, and two children, a daughter born in 2010 and a son born in 2013. She met her husband in Cardiff in 1995 when she was a medical student and he was an archaeology student. They married in 2009.
She is a pescatarian, an atheist and former President of Humanists UK, beginning her three and a half year term in January 2019. She is now a Vice President of the organisation. 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.
Roberts enjoys watercolour painting, surfing, wild swimming, cycling, gardening and pub quizzes. Roberts is an organiser of the Cheltenham Science Festival and school outreach programmes within the University of Bristol's Medical Sciences Division. In March 2007, she hosted the Bristol Medical School's charity dance show Clicendales 2007, to raise funds for the charity CLIC Sargent.
Roberts took her baby daughter with her when touring for the six-month filming of the first series of Digging for Britain in 2010.
Research and career
Roberts spent eighteen months as a junior doctor with the National Health Service in South Wales. She left clinical medicine and served as an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Bristol in 1998, and later became a lecturer.
She spent seven years on her PhD in paleopathology, or the study of disease in ancient human remains, receiving the degree in 2008. She served as a senior teaching fellow at the University of Bristol Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy, where her primary duties included teaching clinical anatomy, embryology, and human anatomy, as well as researching osteoarchaeology and paleopathology. In 2009, she announced that she was working towards becoming a anatomy professor.
In 2009, she co-presented modules for the Beating Bipolar program, the first internet-based education therapy for patients with bipolar disorder.
Roberts served as a visiting fellow in both the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Department of Anatomy of the University of Bristol from August 2009 to January 2012. Roberts served as Director of Anatomy at the NHS Severn Deanery School of Surgery from 2009 to 2016, as well as an honorary fellow at Hull York Medical School.
Roberts was appointed as the University of Birmingham's first professor of public engagement in science in February 2012.
Roberts has been a member of the Cheltenham Science Festival's advisory board for ten years and has been a member of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath since 2018.
Roberts dismissed the aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH) as a distraction "from the growing story of human evolution, which is more interesting and complicated," adding that AAH has developed to become "a theory of everything" that is both "too extravagant and too simple" in the i newspaper in 2016. "Science is about evidence, not wishful thinking," she said.
The 2018 Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution in London were co-presented by Roberts and Aoife McLysaght. She is the president of the British Science Association, and her term began in September 2019.
On BBC Radio 4, Roberts produced Bodies, a ten-part narrative history series about the human body in January 2021.
Roberts, a science and history television documentaries host, was one of the regular co-presenters of BBC's geographical and environmental show Coast.
Roberts was first seen on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode, where he was researching Anglo-Saxon burials at Breamore, Hampshire. In several episodes, including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology, she appeared as a bone specialist and general host. One of the main presenters of a Time Team special episode in August 2006 looked at the archaeology of Britain's royal palaces and Roberts, as well as Roberts.
Dr Alice Roberts wrote and presented a BBC Two documentary on anatomy and health entitled Don't Die Young, which was on air from January 2007. Starting on May 9, she hosted The Incredible Human Journey, a five-part series on human evolution and early human migrations for the channel. (with Mark Hamilton) A Necessary Evil? A one-hour documentary about the Burke and Hare murders premiered in September 2009.
She hosted a one-hour documentary on BBC Four, Wild Swimming, based on Roger Deakin's book Waterlog in August 2010. In August–September 2010, Roberts hosted a four-part BBC Two series on archaeology. Digging for Britain is a British blog. "We're taking a fresh look at it," Roberts said, "We're taking a new approach by exposing British archaeology as it's unfolding in the field, from the excitement of artefacts' coming out of the ground to studying them in the lab, and finally finding out what they tell us about human history." In 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022, the series premiered in 2011 and then again (on BBC Four).
Are We Really Evolving?, a BBC documentary released in March 2011. Origins of Us, a series that aired on BBC Two in October 2011, explored how the human body has evolved through seven million years of evolution. Roberts was on display in East Africa for the final part of this series.
On BBC Two, Roberts presented Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice in April 2012. She appeared in BBC documentary Prehistoric Autopsy, which explored the remains of ancient hominins such as Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and Australopithecus afarensis from the 22 to the 24th of October 2012. She appeared on BBC Two's Ice Age Giants in May and June 2013. Is Your Brain Male or Female? A host on the Horizon program Is Your Brain Male or Female?
She first appeared in the Spider House in October 2014. In 2015, she co-produced The Celts: Blood, Iron, and Sacrifice, a BBC television documentary starring Neil Oliver, as well as writing a book to tie in with the series The Celts: The Search for a Civilisation. She co-presented the BBC Two programme Food Detectives, which explored food intake and its effects on the human body from April to May 2016. In August 2016, she appeared on the BBC Four documentary, Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time, which explored the Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire. In May 2017, she appeared on BBC Two's documentary The Day The Dinosaurs Died. In April 2018, she hosted the six-part Channel 4 series Britain's Most Historic Towns, an examination of British towns' past, which was followed by a second series in May 2019 and a third series in November 2020.
She appeared on BBC Two's King Arthur's Britain: The Truth Unearthed, which explores recent archaeological findings that shed light on Britain's political and economic climate during the Early Middle Ages. Who am I? She delivered a series of three Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in December 2018. Aoife McLysaght, a guest lecturer, is on BBC Four and will be broadcast on BBC Four.
Roberts appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific on August 4, 2020.
Roberts co-presented the BBC's "The Big Dig" in September 2020, focusing on the discoveries in St. James' Park in London and Park Street in Birmingham.
Roberts performed Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, a one-hour BBC Two documentary about Mike Parker Pearson's five-year journey that ended in a 400-year historical gap in the provenance of the bluestones of Stonehenge and Waun Mawn.