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My Take
Alice Roberts is the kind of polymath I genuinely root for. Trained as a physician and working as an anatomist, archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, she reads the human story out of bones and then translates it for the rest of us on screen and on the page. That blend of deep expertise and a gift for public communication is rare, and her 2020 David Attenborough Award feels like fitting recognition of it. I have a soft spot for scientists who refuse to lock knowledge inside the academy. She makes the long arc of human history feel both rigorous and warmly human.
Overview
Alice May Roberts (born 19 May 1973) is an English academic, anatomist, archaeologist, 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 from January 2019 to May 2022, and is now a vice-president of the organisation.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Alice Roberts
- Name (Japanese)
- アリス・ロバーツ
- Reading
- ありす・ろばーつ
- Born
- May 19, 1973 (age 53)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Ox
- Origin
- Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- anthropologist / writer / paleoanthropologist / physician / archaeologist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Cardiff University
Awards & achievements
- honorary degree of the University of Leeds
- 2020 David Attenborough Award
- 2015 honorary doctorate
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.alice-roberts.co.uk/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ancientmodernist/
- Xhttps://x.com/draliceroberts
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Roberts
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.