Professor Alice Roberts

About

Professor Alice Roberts

Alice is passionate about sharing knowledge, and known for her incredible ability as a speaker to make complex issues relevant for audiences of all interests and abilities.

Having initially trained as a doctor, Alice left surgery to become a university academic – teaching clinical anatomy to students and doctors.

Now one of the UK’s most popular broadcasters, Alice has presented more than 100 factual television documentaries and is a well-respected authority on human biology, history, and archaeology.

Busier than ever, in 2023 alone Alice presented Ancient Egypt by Train and Fortress Britain for Channel 4; The Lost Scrolls of Vesuvius for Channel 5; and Curse of the Ancients and Royal Autopsy for Sky History. She’s also filmed the eleventh series of her hugely popular BBC series Digging for Britain.

Alice has headlined corporate launches; chaired panel debates; conducted professional interviews and hosted numerous prestigious awards ceremonies. She presented the Royal Institute’s Christmas Lecture and In 2020, was awarded the Royal Society’s first David Attenborough Prize for Public Engagement. won the Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture.

Whether it’s a large international conference, academic lecture, business event, or private occasion, Alice’s immense knowledge and high profile, mean she is guaranteed to educate, entertain, and inspire.

With a huge 420K following on Twitter, Alice has broad, popular appeal – known for speaking her mind and engaging people of all ages and interests.

An award-winning writer, Alice has published 15 best-selling, popular science books. Her next non-fiction book Crypt will be published in Feb 2024.

Wolf Road is Alice’s first fiction book for children. Published in 2023 to great critical acclaim, it raced to the top of the children’s fiction best-seller list.

In 2015 her book The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.

With a huge 420K following on Twitter, Alice has broad, popular appeal – known for speaking her mind and engaging people of all ages and interests.

Having originally studied and practiced medicine, Alice went on to become a university lecturer, teaching clinical anatomy, and undertaking research in biological anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She is especially interested in the intersection between biology, archaeology and history, the impact of ancient genomics in archaeology, and the interaction between humans and the environment through time.