Alice May Roberts is an English academic, 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 between January 2019 and May 2022. She is now a vice president of the organisation.
Roberts in January 2016
Roberts giving a public lecture for the opening of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath in 2018
Roberts at the unveiling of a Statue of Mary Anning in Lyme Regis in Dorset, May 2022
Humanists UK, known from 1967 until May 2017 as the British Humanist Association (BHA), is a charitable organisation which promotes secular humanism and aims to represent "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs" in the United Kingdom by campaigning on issues relating to humanism, secularism, and human rights. It seeks to act as a representative body for non-religious people in the UK.
BHA supporters, including Andrew Copson and Polly Toynbee, taking part in a No Prayer Breakfast event at the Labour Party Conference in 2012
Richard Dawkins accepting the Services to Humanism award at Humanists UK Annual Conference in 2012
Ariane Sherine and BHA Vice President Richard Dawkins at the bus campaign launch
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