Alice Roberts

Roberts was born in Bristol in 1973, the daughter of an aeronautical engineer and an English and arts teacher.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/9956340/TV-academic-Alice-Roberts-I-started-as-a-doctor-on-21000.html|title=TV academic Alice Roberts: 'I started as a doctor on £21,000'|last=Lewis|first=Roz|date=27 March 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=15 November 2013}} She grew up in the Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym, where she attended the private Red Maids' School.{{cite web |url=http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/hot-seat-Alice-Roberts/article-216428-detail/article.html |title=In the hot seat: Alice Roberts |publisher=thisisbristol.co.uk |date=11 July 2008 |access-date=28 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513130718/http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/hot-seat-Alice-Roberts/article-216428-detail/article.html |archive-date=13 May 2009 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.redmaids.bristol.sch.uk/public/uploads/375-Programme_of_Events%5B1%5D.pdf|title=Redmaids' School Celebrating 375 Years|year=2009|publisher=Redmaids' School|page=2|quote=This conference ... will be led by former Red Maid and star of BBC's Coast, Dr Alice Roberts ... |access-date=20 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928104420/http://www.redmaids.bristol.sch.uk/public/uploads/375-Programme_of_Events%5B1%5D.pdf|archive-date=28 September 2013}} 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.{{cite journal|date=10 December 1988|title=RT 3393 – 10–16 Dec 1988 (South) BLUE PETER – 30 Years – Alice Roberts with her Blue Peter picture.|url=http://www.radiotimesbacknumbers.com/Category/Radio+Times--3aRT+1980-89--3aRT+1988/12643/Review.aspx|url-status=usurped|journal=Radio Times|issue=3393|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927225951/http://www.radiotimesbacknumbers.com/Category/Radio%2BTimes--3aRT%2B1980-89--3aRT%2B1988/12643/Review.aspx|archive-date=27 September 2013|access-date=|via=Kelly Books and Magazines}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media/experts/jsp/public_view/expertDetails?personKey=m9ybfhBsFlLN7aLjr9a4QJwj9Xw13K |title=University of Bristol: Directory of Experts |publisher=University of Bristol|access-date=27 May 2009}}{{cite web |title=Professor Alice Roberts – Professor of Public Engagement in Science |url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/biosciences/roberts-alice.aspx |publisher=University of Birmingham |access-date=19 January 2019}} In 2008, after seven years, she completed her PhD in paleopathology, the study of disease in ancient human remains.{{Cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Paul |date=2014-08-30 |title=Alice Roberts: a successful boffin without a beard |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alice-roberts-she-s-done-pretty-well-for-a-boffin-without-a-beard-9701801.html |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=The Independent |language=en}}

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After graduating, Roberts worked as a junior doctor with the National Health Service in South Wales for 18 months. In 1998, she left clinical medicine and worked as an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Bristol, becoming a lecturer there in 1999.

She spent seven years working part-time on her PhD in paleopathology, receiving the degree in 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/anatomy/research/staff/roberts.html |title=Staff: Dr Alice May Roberts MB BCh BSc PhD |publisher=University of Bristol |date=24 April 2009 |access-date=29 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514024129/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/anatomy/research/staff/roberts.html |archive-date=14 May 2009 |url-status=dead}}{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Alice May |last=Roberts |title=Rotator cuff disease in humans and apes: a palaeopathological and evolutionary perspective on shoulder pathology |publisher=University of Bristol |year=2008 |url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/4695691?style=html |website=jisc.ac.uk |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.492449}} |oclc=931580371 |access-date=1 November 2018 |archive-date=1 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201005231/https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/4695691?style=html |url-status=dead }} She 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/anatomy/contact/staff/staffsummary.html |title=Staff summaries |publisher=University of Bristol |date=31 March 2009 |access-date=29 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603182122/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/anatomy/contact/staff/staffsummary.html |archive-date=3 June 2009 |url-status=dead}} She stated in 2009 that she was working towards becoming a professor of anatomy.{{cite news|last=Deacon|first=Michael|date=5 May 2009|title=Interview: Alice Roberts on The Incredible Human Journey|work=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5279787/Interview-Alice-Roberts-on-The-Incredible-Human-Journey.html|url-status=live|access-date=16 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517025406/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5279787/Interview-Alice-Roberts-on-The-Incredible-Human-Journey.html|archive-date=17 May 2009}}

In 2009, she co-presented modules for the Beating Bipolar programme, the first online treatment package for bipolar depression, trialled by Cardiff University researchers. A clinical trial began in June 2009 involving about 100 patients with bipolar disorder in South Wales.{{cite web |title=Cardiff researchers to test first online treatment for bipolar depression |date=12 April 2009 |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cardiff-researchers-test-first-online-2111394 |publisher=Wales Online |access-date=15 August 2018}}

From August 2009 until January 2012, Roberts was a visiting fellow in both the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Department of Anatomy of the University of Bristol.{{cite web |url=http://www.alice-roberts.co.uk/research.html |title=Research |access-date=16 October 2009 |publisher=alice-roberts.co.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004022455/http://www.alice-roberts.co.uk/research.html |archive-date=4 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/contact/person/getDetails?personKey=m9ybfhBsFlLN7aLjr9a4QJwj9Xw13K |title=University of Bristol: Contact Directory |access-date=16 October 2009 |archive-date=21 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321155610/http://www.bris.ac.uk/contact/person/getDetails?personKey=m9ybfhBsFlLN7aLjr9a4QJwj9Xw13K |url-status=dead }}

From 2009 to 2016 Roberts was Director of Anatomy at the NHS Severn Deanery School of Surgery and also an honorary fellow at Hull York Medical School.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013gmh1 BBC Two – Origins of Us]. BBC.co.uk (31 October 2011).[http://surgery.severndeanery.org/ Surgery – Home – Severn Deanery – NHS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005124452/http://surgery.severndeanery.org/ |date=5 October 2011 }}. Surgery.severndeanery.org.

In February 2012, Roberts was appointed the University of Birmingham's first Professor of Public Engagement in Science.{{cite video|title=Dr Alice Roberts talks about her role at the University of Birmingham| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCyivDUu0AM|date=20 January 2012|publisher=YouTube}}{{cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2012/01/23Jan-Alice-Roberts-Press-Release.aspx|title=University of Birmingham appoints Alice Roberts as first Professor of Public Engagement in Science |publisher=University of Birmingham |date=23 January 2012 |access-date=31 January 2012}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9030938/Alice-Roberts-hits-out-at-science-geeks.html|title=Alice Roberts hits out at science 'geeks'|first= Graeme|last=Paton |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 January 2012}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2018-who-am-i/meet-alice-roberts |title=Meet Alice Roberts |publisher=Royal Institution |year=2018 |access-date=19 January 2019}}

Writing in the i newspaper in 2016, Roberts dismissed the aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH) as a distraction "from the emerging story of human evolution that is more interesting and complex", adding that AAH has become "a theory of everything" that is simultaneously "too extravagant and too simple". She concluded by saying that "science is about evidence, not wishful thinking".The "i" newspaper, 17 September 2016, page 23{{cite web |url=http://theconversation.com/sorry-david-attenborough-we-didnt-evolve-from-aquatic-apes-heres-why-65570 |title=Sorry David Attenborough, we didn't evolve from 'aquatic apes' – here's why |last=Roberts |first=Alice |website=The Conversation |date=16 September 2016 |access-date=16 October 2016}}

Roberts and Aoife McLysaght co-presented the 2018 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in London.{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Alice |last2=McLysaght |first2=Aoife |author1-link=Alice Roberts |author2-link=Aoife McLysaght |title=Who am I? |url=http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/2018/who-am-i |website=The Royal Institution |access-date=19 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110101908/https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/2018/who-am-i |archive-date=2021-01-10 |date=2018}} She was president of the British Science Association for the year 2019–2020.

In January 2021, Roberts presented a 10-part narrative history series about the human body entitled Bodies on BBC Radio 4.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rd12|title=Bodies|website=bbc.co.uk|accessdate=1 February 2021}}

A presenter of science and history television documentaries, Roberts was one of the regular co-presenters of the BBC geographical and environmental series Coast.{{cite web|title=The Team|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/experts/|website=Coast|publisher=BBC|access-date=17 October 2015}}

Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode,{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/biog_alice.html|title=Programmes – Most Popular – All 4|website=Channel 4}}[http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/archive/timeteamlive2001/index.html Time Team Live 2001]. Channel 4. working on Anglo-Saxon burials at Breamore, Hampshire. She served as a bone specialist and general presenter in many episodes, including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology. In August 2006, Roberts was one of the main presenters for the Time Team special episode Big Royal Dig, which investigated archaeology of Britain's royal palaces.

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. She 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.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/21/darwin5.shtml BBC – Press Office – The BBC's Darwin Season press pack: BBC Two]. 21 January 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2009. In September 2009, she co-presented (with Mark Hamilton) A Necessary Evil?, a one-hour documentary about the Burke and Hare murders.{{cite web|title=A Necessary Evil?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n1lkj|publisher=BBC|access-date=17 October 2015}}

In August 2010, she presented a one-hour documentary on BBC Four, Wild Swimming, inspired by Roger Deakin's book Waterlog.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t9r28 Wild Swimming BBC site, retrieved 14 August 2010]. BBC.co.uk (12 August 2012). Roberts presented a four-part BBC Two series on archaeology in August–September 2010, Digging for Britain.{{cite web|title=Digging for Britain|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/comingup/digging-for-britain/|publisher=BBC TV website|access-date=4 August 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100811040843/http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/comingup/digging-for-britain/| archive-date= 11 August 2010 | url-status= live}}{{cite news|title=Huge Roman coin find for hobbyist|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10549940|date=8 July 2010|access-date=4 August 2010|work=BBC News}} Roberts explained, "We're taking a fresh approach by showing British archaeology as it's happening out in the field, from the excitement of artefacts as they come out of the ground, through to analysing them in the lab and working out what they tell us about human history." The show was successful and aired its twelfth series in 2025.{{cite web |title=Digging For Britain - Home |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014hl0d |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 June 2025}}

In March 2011, she presented a BBC documentary in the Horizon series entitled Are We Still Evolving?[https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00z6zc7/Horizon_20102011_Are_We_Still_Evolving/ BBC Horizon Are We Still Evolving?]. BBC.co.uk (27 August 2012). Later in 2011, she presented another BBC documentary called How to Build a Dinosaur,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014vy5y|title=BBC Four – How to Build a Dinosaur|website=BBC|access-date=5 August 2023}} which aired on BBC4 on 21 September 2011.

She 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.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/18/origins-of-us-alice-roberts-bbc2?newsfeed=true | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=John | last=Plunkett | title=Origins of Us begins with 1.78m viewers | date=18 October 2011}} The last part of this series featured Roberts visiting the Rift Valley in East Africa.

In April 2012, Roberts presented Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice on BBC Two.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fkcdr|title=Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice|website=BBC|access-date=17 May 2017}} From 22 to 24 October 2012, she appeared, with co-presenter Dr George McGavin, in the BBC series Prehistoric Autopsy,{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xfdmt | title=Prehistoric Autopsy | publisher=BBC | access-date=23 October 2012}} which discussed the remains of early hominins such as Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Australopithecus afarensis. In May and June 2013 she presented the BBC Two series Ice Age Giants.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22508888|author=Alex Campbell|title=Uncovering the secrets of North America's Ice Age giants|date=17 May 2013|access-date=27 May 2013|publisher =BBC}} In September 2014, she was a presenter on the Horizon programme Is Your Brain Male or Female?{{cite web|title=Alice Roberts: Boys' and girls' brains aren't so different|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-09-29/alice-roberts-boys-and-girls-brains-arent-so-different|work=Radio Times|access-date=17 October 2015}}

In October 2014, she presented Spider House.{{cite web|title=Professor Alice Roberts faces her fears|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3Z3DTBhPbNm2VP6SJBg9Wql/professor-alice-roberts-faces-her-fears|publisher=BBC|access-date=17 October 2015}} In 2015, she co-presented a 3-part BBC TV documentary with Neil Oliver entitled The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06h7x5f|title=The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice|access-date=2015-10-09|publisher=BBC}} and wrote a book to tie in with the series: The Celts: Search for a Civilisation.{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Alice|title=The Celts: Search for a Civilisation|year=2015|publisher=Heron Books|isbn=978-1784293321|pages=320}} In April–May 2016, she co-presented the BBC Two programme Food Detectives which looked at food nutrition and its effects on the body. In August 2016, she presented the BBC Four documentary Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time, which explored the Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07myxws|title=BBC Four – Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-26}} In May 2017, she was a presenter of the BBC Two documentary The Day The Dinosaurs Died.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39922998|title=Dinosaur asteroid hit 'worst possible place'|first=Jonathan|last=Amos|work=BBC News |date=15 May 2017|access-date=17 May 2017}} In April 2018, she presented the six-part Channel 4 series Britain's Most Historic Towns,{{Cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/britains-most-historic-towns|title=Britain's Most Historic Town|website=Channel 4|access-date=30 April 2018}} which examines the history of British towns, which was followed by a second series in May 2019 and a third series in November 2020.

In September 2018, she presented the BBC Two documentary King Arthur's Britain: The Truth Unearthed, which examines new archaeological discoveries that cast light on the political and trading situation in Britain during the Early Middle Ages.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bkvw8v|title=King Arthur's Britain: The Truth Unearthed|access-date=20 September 2018|publisher=BBC}} In December 2018, she presented a series of three Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, titled Who am I? and broadcast on BBC Four, with guest lecturer Aoife McLysaght.

On 4 August 2020, Roberts was the guest on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.{{Cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lghd|title=BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Alice Roberts on bones|publisher=BBC| access-date=4 August 2020}} Aired as a three-part series in September 2020, Roberts co-presented the BBC's The Big Dig focusing on the finds at St. James's Park in London and Park Street in Birmingham.

On 12 February 2021, Roberts presented a one-hour BBC Two documentary, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed,{{cite web|date=12 February 2021|title=Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s5xm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212190631/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s5xm|archive-date=12 February 2021|access-date=19 February 2021|website=BBC Two}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Lidz |first1=Franz |title=Was Stonehenge a 'Secondhand' Monument? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/science/stonehenge-archaeology-wales-parker-pearson.html |access-date=19 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=12 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218090503/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/science/stonehenge-archaeology-wales-parker-pearson.html |archive-date=2021-02-18}}{{cite news |last1=Higgins |first1=Charlotte |title=Another part of the Stonehenge mystery has been unearthed before our eyes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/16/stonehenge-archaeology-documentary |access-date=19 February 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=16 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218083440/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/16/stonehenge-archaeology-documentary |archive-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |quote=What is the Stonehenge that Parker Pearson brings us? It is a Stonehenge of a people who were competent and able. A Stonehenge of migrants, of people who travelled great distances, who gathered together in large numbers to erect remarkable structures, who cooperated. This is a speculative picture and tentative, as Parker Pearson would surely be the first to admit.}}{{cite journal |last1=Pearson |first1=Mike Parker |author-link1=Mike Parker Pearson |last2=Pollard |first2=Josh |last3=Richards |first3=Colin |last4=Welham |first4=Kate |last5=Kinnaird |first5=Timothy |last6=Shaw |first6=Dave |last7=Simmons |first7=Ellen |last8=Stanford |first8=Adam |last9=Bevins |first9=Richard |last10=Ixer |first10=Rob |last11=Ruggles |first11=Clive |last12=Rylatt |first12=Jim |last13=Edinborough |first13=Kevan |title=The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales |journal=Antiquity |date=February 2021 |volume=95 |issue=379 |pages=85–103 |doi=10.15184/aqy.2020.239 |doi-access=free }}

On 14 March 2022, Curse Of The Ancients with Alice Roberts, a five-part documentary series presented by Roberts premiered on Sky History.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Curse-Of-The-Ancients-S1/dp/B0B7C7LCZM|title=Curse Of The Ancients|website=amazon.co.uk|accessdate=10 Jun 2023}} In October Roberts presented Royal Autopsy, a two-part documentary series shown on Sky History; a second series was commissioned in November 2023.{{cite web|url=https://tv.apple.com/us/show/royal-autopsy/umc.cmc.icdgozgrwr0j9ifyd46u6h4x|title=Royal Autopsy|website=tv.apple.com|date=24 October 2022 |accessdate=29 January 2024}} The series examined the deaths of Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles II, and then Queen Anne, Queen Mary I, King Henry IV and King George IV.{{cite web|url=https://www.aenetworks.tv/news/sky-history-commissions-new-series-royal-autopsy#:~:text=SKY%20HISTORY%20COMMISSIONS%20A%20NEW%20SERIES%20OF%20ROYAL%20AUTOPSY,-Dr%20Brett%20Locker&text=London%2C%2030th%20November%202023%3A%20A,presented%20by%20Professor%20Alice%20Roberts.|title=Sky History Commissions A New Series Of Royal Autopsy|website=aenetworks.tv|accessdate=29 January 2024}} Roberts presented the second series of Royal Autopsy that aired during April 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.history.co.uk/articles/how-to-watch-royal-autopsy|title=How To Watch Royal Autopsy|website=history.co.uk|accessdate=30 October 2024}}

In March and April 2023, Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Fortress Britain with Alice Roberts.{{cite web|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/fortress-britain-with-alice-roberts|title=Fortress Britain with Alice Roberts|website=channel4.com|accessdate=16 April 2023}} In June, Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts,{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-c2edvj/ancient-egypt-by-train-with-alice-roberts-season-1/?episode=b-nq2tgv|title=Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts|website=radiotimes.com|accessdate=30 May 2023}} Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts during autumn 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2024/10/26/ottoman-empire-by-train-review-alice-roberts-channel-4/|title=Ottoman Empire by Train, review: all aboard Alice Roberts's Turkish snooze-fest|website=telegraph.co.uk/tv|date=26 October 2024|accessdate=30 October 2024}} and Ancient Greece by Train with Alice Roberts during spring 2025.{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-zt6uo7/ancient-greece-by-train-with-alice-roberts-season-1/?episode=b-oo9zvh|title=Ainsley's National Trust Cook Off|website=radiotimes.com|access-date=9 March 2025}}

In May 2024, Roberts presented the documentary The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelations, which aired on Channel 5.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/lost-scrolls-of-pompeii-new-revelation-review/|title=Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelation, review: a misleading title − but a fascinating subject|website=telegraph.co.uk|date=12 May 2024 |accessdate=8 February 2025 |last1=Singh |first1=Anita }}

In 2011, Roberts was elected an honorary fellow of the British Science Association, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. In 2014, she was selected by the Science Council as one of their leading UK practising scientists.{{cite web |url=https://sciencecouncil.org/about-science/10-types-of-scientist/2014-list-of-leading-uk-practising-scientists/ |title=2014 list of leading 100 UK practising scientists |publisher=Science Council |date=January 2014 |access-date=21 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807142724/https://sciencecouncil.org/about-science/10-types-of-scientist/2014-list-of-leading-uk-practising-scientists/ |archive-date=7 August 2017}} During 2014, she was President of The Association for Science Education, and presented the Morgan-Botti lecture.{{Cite web|url=https://eventful.com/cardiff/events/morgan-botti-science-day-2014-evening-lecture-/E0-001-070990218-9|title=Eventful: Morgan Botti Science Day 2014: Evening Lecture|website=Eventful|language=en|access-date=2019-10-08}}

Roberts has received honorary doctorates (DSc) from Royal Holloway, University of London; Bournemouth University;{{cite web |url=https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/sites/default/files/asset/document/alice-roberts-citation.pdf |title=Professor Alice Roberts |publisher=Bournemouth University |date=6 November 2013 |access-date=19 January 2019}} the Open University and the University of Leeds;{{cite web|url=https://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/130509/honorary_graduates/645/alice_may_roberts|title=Alice May Roberts|date=July 2018|publisher=University of Leeds|access-date=10 July 2018}} honorary Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the University of Sussex;{{cite web|url=https://archive.sussex.ac.uk/news/press-releases/id/31087?id=31087|title=Professor Alice Roberts|date=July 2015|publisher=University of Sussex|access-date=11 May 2020}} and honorary Doctor of Education from the University of Bath.{{Cite web |last=Wills |first=Matthew |date=May 2022 |title=Professor Alice Roberts: oration |url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/professor-alice-roberts-bsc-mb-bch-phd-oration/ |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=University of Bath}}

In 2019, she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Cardiff University.{{cite web |title=2019 Honorary Fellows |url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/honorary-fellows#Roberts |website=Cardiff University |access-date=21 January 2022 |language=en}}

Roberts was awarded British Humanist of the Year 2015, for work promoting the teaching of evolution in schools.{{cite web |url=https://humanism.org.uk/2015/06/20/alice-roberts-wins-humanist-of-the-year-at-bha-annual-conference-2015/ |title=Alice Roberts wins Humanist of the Year at BHA Annual Conference 2015 |publisher=British Humanist Association |date=20 June 2015 |access-date=19 January 2019}}

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015.{{cite book | last=Roberts | first=Alice | title= The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us | year=2014 | publisher = Heron Books | isbn= 978-1-8486-6477-7}}

In 2020, Roberts won the Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture.{{Cite web|title=Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture {{!}} Royal Society|url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/attenborough-prize/|access-date=2020-09-01|website=royalsociety.org|language=en-gb}}

On 22 May 2022, Roberts unveiled the Statue of Mary Anning at Lyme Regis; the statue was the result of a crowdfunded campaign ("Mary Anning Rocks") to commission and display a statue to the paleontologist Mary Anning in Lyme Regis.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-61520324 |title=Mary Anning: Lyme Regis fossil hunter's statue unveiled |date=22 May 2022 |work=BBC News |accessdate=25 May 2022}}

File:Mary Anning Unveiling.jpg in Lyme Regis in Dorset, May 2022]]

Roberts lives with her husband, David Stevens, and two children, a daughter born in 2010 and a son born in 2013.{{cite news|last=Gallagher|first=Paul|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alice-roberts-shes-done-pretty-well-for-a-boffin-without-a-beard-9701801.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831020807/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alice-roberts-shes-done-pretty-well-for-a-boffin-without-a-beard-9701801.html |archive-date=2014-08-31 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=Alice Roberts: She's done pretty well, for a boffin without a beard|work=The Independent on Sunday|date=30 August 2014|access-date=16 October 2017}} She met her husband in Cardiff in 1995 when she was a medical student and he was an archaeology student.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alice-roberts-she-s-done-pretty-well-for-a-boffin-without-a-beard-9701801.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317211155/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alice-roberts-she-s-done-pretty-well-for-a-boffin-without-a-beard-9701801.html |archive-date=2022-03-17 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=Alice Roberts: a successful boffin without a beard|date=30 August 2014|website=The Independent}} They married in 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.co.uk/shows/curse-of-the-ancients-with-alice-roberts/articles/meet-professor-alice-roberts-host-of-curse-of-the-ancients|title=Meet Professor Alice Roberts host of Curse of the Ancients|website=Sky HISTORY TV channel}}

She is a pescatarian,{{cite video|title=Brief Candle in the Dark – with Richard Dawkins|quote=I'm a vegetarian, who eats fish (29:50) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYqMWP2wxW4#t=29m49s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/jYqMWP2wxW4 |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|access-date=21 January 2016|date=21 January 2016}}{{cbignore}} "a confirmed atheist"{{Cite web|url=https://newhumanist.org.uk/2882/qa-alice-roberts|title=Q&A: Alice Roberts|date=22 October 2012|website=New Humanist|language=en-GB|access-date=25 March 2019}} and former president of Humanists UK, beginning her three-and-a-half-year term in January 2019.{{cite web|url=https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/alice-roberts/|title=Dr Alice Roberts: Anatomist, author, broadcaster and distinguished supporter of Humanism|work=British Humanist Association|access-date=28 November 2013}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/tv-scientist-alice-roberts-to-be-president-of-humanists-uk|title=TV scientist Alice Roberts to be president of Humanists UK|last=Sherwood|first=Harriet|date=11 November 2018|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=12 November 2018}} She is now a vice president of the organisation.{{Cite web |title=Humanists UK Patron: Professor Alice Roberts |url=https://humanists.uk/civicrm/ |access-date=2022-06-08 |website=Humanists UK |language=en}} 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.{{Cite news|title=Stop funding faith, says BBC presenter Alice Roberts with children at church school|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/stop-funding-faith-says-bbc-presenter-with-children-at-church-school-08xx2r7g2|access-date=18 May 2020}}

Roberts enjoys watercolour painting, kayaking, 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.{{cite web|title=Prof Alice Roberts|url=http://eden.uktv.co.uk/eden-heroes/alice-roberts/article/alice-roberts-profile/|publisher=Eden TV|access-date=17 October 2015}}

Roberts took her baby daughter with her when touring for the six-month filming of the first series of Digging for Britain in 2010.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/7944849/Digging-for-history...-but-its-not-Time-Team.html |title=Digging for history... but it's not Time Team |work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Michael |last=Hogan |date=13 August 2010 |access-date=13 July 2011 }}

In March 2024 Roberts was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where her musical choices included "Monkey Gone to Heaven" by the Pixies, "Temple of Love" by The Sisters of Mercy, and "Sugar" by System of a Down.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xm3m | title=BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, Professor Alice Roberts, scientist and broadcaster }}

Roberts is an author.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_7932000/7932061.stm|title=Science Week: Alice's inspiration|date=9 March 2009|work=BBC News}}{{cite web|url=http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/straight-talking/interviews/alice_roberts_anatomy_bones_television|title=Interview with Alice Roberts|access-date=18 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029212539/http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/straight-talking/interviews/alice_roberts_anatomy_bones_television|archive-date=29 October 2013|url-status=dead}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20100412021400/http://blip.tv/file/2596604 Roberts interviewed] by Robert Llewellyn on Carpool, 25 September 2009 She has authored or co-authored a number of peer reviewed scientific articles in journals.{{Google scholar id}}{{Cite journal | journal = Forensic Science International | title = The use of μCT technology to identify skull fracture in a case involving blunt force trauma | year = 2010 | pmid = 20673617 | doi = 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.06.013 | last1 = Brown | first4 = A. M. | last4 = Roberts | first1 = K. R. | first2 = I. A. | author-link4 = Alice Roberts| last2 = Silver | first3 = J. H. | last3 = Musgrave | volume = 206 | issue = 1–3 | pages = e8–e11}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Lockwood | first1 = A. M. | last2 = Roberts | first2 = A. M. | author-link2 = Alice Roberts| doi = 10.1002/ca.20427 | title = The anatomy demonstrator of the future: An examination of the role of the medically-qualified anatomy demonstrator in the context of tomorrow's doctors and modernizing medical careers | journal = Clinical Anatomy | volume = 20 | issue = 4 | pages = 455–459 | year = 2007 | pmid = 17072876| s2cid = 46567268 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Roberts | first1 = A. M. | author-link1 = Alice Roberts| last2 = Peters | first2 = T. J. |author-link3=Kate Robson Brown | last3 = Robson Brown | first3 = K. A. | title = New light on old shoulders: palaeopathological patterns of arthropathy and enthesopathy in the shoulder complex | journal = Journal of Anatomy| volume = 211| issue = 4| pages = 485–492| year = 2007 | pmid = 17711424 | pmc = 2375834 | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00789.x}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Roberts | first1 = A. M. | author-link1 = Alice Roberts| last2 = Robson-Brown | first2 = K. | last3 = Musgrave | first3 = J. H. | last4 = Leslie | first4 = I. | title = A case of bilateral scapholunate advanced collapse in a Romano-British skeleton from Ancaster | doi = 10.1002/oa.817 | journal = International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | volume = 16 | issue = 3 | pages = 208 | year = 2006 }} Her published books include:

• {{cite book | title=Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology | year=2007 | publisher = Archaeopress | isbn= 978-1-4073-0035-1 |oclc = 124507736}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Robson-Brown | first1 = Kate | last2 = Roberts | first2 = Alice | title = BABAO 2004 : Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, University of Bristol | place = Oxford, England | series = British Archaeological Reports | publisher=Archaeopress | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-1-4073-0035-1}}
• {{cite book | title=Don't Die Young: An Anatomist's Guide to Your Organs and Your Health | year=2007 | publisher =Bloomsbury Publishing | isbn=978-0-7475-9025-5 |oclc = 81195249}}{{cite book|title=Don't Die Young: An Anatomist's Guide to Your Organs and Your Health |author=Roberts, Alice|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing: London, 2007| isbn = 978-0-7475-9025-5|year=2007}}
• {{cite book | title=The Incredible Human Journey | year=2009 | publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing | isbn=978-0-7475-9839-8 |oclc = 646959203}}
• {{cite book | title=The Complete Human Body | year=2010 | publisher = Dorling Kindersley | isbn=978-1-4053-4749-5 |oclc = 951155923}}
• {{cite book | title=Evolution The Human Story | year=2011 | publisher = Dorling Kindersley | isbn=978-1-4053-6165-1| oclc = 1038452947 }} Revised edition (2018), Dorling Kindersley, {{ISBN|978-1-4654-7401-8}}
• Human anatomy: the definitive visual guide. Dorling Kindersley, 2014. {{ISBN|9780241292082}}, {{OCLC|1010946584}}
• {{cite book | title= The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us | year=2014 | publisher = Heron Books | isbn= 978-1-8486-6477-7| oclc = 910702281}}
• {{cite book | title= The Celts: Search for a Civilisation | year=2015 | publisher = Heron Books | isbn= 978-1784293321|oclc = 967497115 }}
• {{cite book | title= Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World| year=2017 | publisher = Hutchinson Books | isbn= 978-1786330611 |oclc = 1038452971}}
• {{cite book | title= The Little Book of Humanism: Universal lessons on finding purpose, meaning and joy| surname1 = Copson | given1 = Andrew | surname2 = Roberts | given2 = Alice | year=2020 | publisher = Little, Brown Book Group | isbn= 978-0349425467}}
• {{cite book |last1= |first1= |title=Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials |date=2021 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location= |isbn=978-1471188015}}
• Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain. Simon & Schuster UK. 2022. {{ISBN|978-1398510036}}
• {{cite book |last1= |first1= |title=Anatomical Oddities |date=2022 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location= |isbn=978-1398510067 |oclc=1351645158}}
• {{cite book |title=Wolf Road |date=2023 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1398521339 |oclc=1398521337}}{{cite book|title=Wolf Road|id={{ASIN|1398521337|country=uk}} }}
• {{cite book |title=Crypt |date=2024 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1398519237 |oclc=1398519235}}{{cite book|title=Crypt|id={{ASIN|1398519235|country=uk}} }}
• {{cite book |title=Domination |date=2025 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1398510081 |oclc=}}{{cite book|title=Domination|id= }}

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