Alice Roberts

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Alice Roberts (2016)

Alice May Roberts (born May 19, 1973 in Bristol ) is an English anatomist , anthropologist , paleopathologist , author and television presenter. She has been Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham since 2009 .

Education and academic career

Roberts was born in 1973 in Bristol , where her grandfather was mayor, and attended Red Maid's School for girls in Westbury-on-Trym . After graduating from high school, she studied medicine with a minor in anatomy at Cardiff University , where she graduated in 1997. She then worked in South Wales for the National Health Service as a doctor aiming to become a surgeon. After 18 months, however, she decided on a different career path and switched to teaching anatomy at the University of Bristol when a position became available there. In 1999 she became a lecturer in anatomy, embryology and biological anthropology and carried out research in the fields of osteology and paleopathology (sub-areas of biological anthropology). For the next seven years, she also wrote her doctoral thesis in the field of paleopathology. She received her PhD in 2008. Her next goal is to become a professor in anatomy.

Between August 2009 and January 2012 Roberts worked as a visiting fellow in the departments of archeology, anthropology and anatomy in Bristol before she accepted a new position at the University of Birmingham in February 2012 as the first professor of public engagement in science . She is also director of anatomy for the Severn Deanery Postgraduate School of Surgery at the National Health Service and a research fellow at Hull York Medical School.

Career in television

Alice Robert's career as a television expert came about by chance. While working in Bristol's anatomy department, the producers of the archaeological documentary series Time Team , which was partly filmed in town, approached her and asked her to write expert reports on the bones they excavated. In 2001 she appeared in Time Team Live for the first time as a bone expert in front of the camera, and the BBC then offered her a permanent position as a presenter on their series Coast , in which she has since appeared more than 40. In 2007 she wrote and hosted a BBC 2 series entitled Dr. Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young and a 2009 documentary about human evolution called The Incredible Human Journey . In the following years she entered a. a. in the archeology series Digging for Britain , which shows British archaeologists at work; and in the series Origins of Us , which explains the human adaptation process over seven million years of evolution. In 2012, she appeared on the BBC series Prehistoric Autopsy , which deals with remains of early hominids such as Neanderthals , Homo erectus and Australopithecus afarensis . In May and June 2013 she presented the documentary series Ice Age Giants , in which she presented various extinct giant animal species from the Ice Age. In July of the same year, as part of the BBC series “horizon”, the science documentary Der Mensch - Wunderwerk der Natur (English original title: What makes us human?) Followed, in which she also placed her own pregnancy in the context of scientific perspectives.

Private life

Alice Roberts has been married to archaeologist David Stevens since 2000. The couple has a daughter (* 2009) and a son (* 2013). She supports the charities 4Ethiopia, British Heart Foundation, Sustrans and The Monkey Sanctuary Trust.

Publications

  • The beginnings of mankind: From the upright gait to the early high cultures. Dorling Kindersley Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3831022236 (Original English title: Evolution: The Human Story Dorling Kindersley 2011)
  • Anatomy and Physiology: The Image Encyclopedia. Dorling Kindersley Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 3831019703 (Original: The Complete Human Body Dorling Kindersley 2010, ISBN 1-4053-4749-X )
  • The Incredible Human Journey. Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2009, ISBN 0-7475-9839-8
  • Don't Die Young: An Anatomist's Guide to Your Organs and Your Health. Bloomsbury Publishing plc, London 2007, ISBN 0-7475-9025-7
  • Kate Robson-Brown, Alice M. Roberts (Eds.): BABAO 2004: proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology University of Bristol. British Archaeological Reports. Oxford, England 2007: Archaeopress. ISBN 978-1-4073-0035-1

Web links

Commons : Alice Roberts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tweet from Alice Roberts
  2. ↑ In the hot seat: Alice Roberts . thisisbristol.co.uk. July 11, 2008. Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c Interview: Alice Roberts on the Incredible Human Journey
  4. ↑ Staff summaries . University of Bristol. March 31, 2009. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved on 06/24/2014.
  5. ↑ Alice Roberts doctoral thesis on Rotator cuff disease in humans and apes: a palaeopathological and evolutionary perspective on shoulder pathology
  6. ↑  (January 20, 2012). Dr Alice Roberts talks about her role at the University of Birmingham . YouTube.
  7. ↑ BBC Two - Origins of Us . BBC.co.uk (31 October 2011).
  8. ↑ Man - a miracle of nature on fernsehserien.de
  9. ^ What I See talks motherhood with Professor Alice Roberts . In: What I See . Retrieved June 23, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roberts, Alice May
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English anatomist and paleopathologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol