Birmingham Heroes: Professor Alice Roberts

In 2012, Alice Roberts was appointed as our first ever Professor of Public Engagement in Science. Alice's role involves inspiring people to engage with the wide range of world-class research at the University of Birmingham, and ensuring a dialogue between our academics and the wider public.
Alice works with academics and researchers across the University and in addition carries out a range of academic duties such as lecturing undergraduate students and supervising PhD students in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences.
Related links:
• Public engagement in science: stimulating a two-way dialogue (MP3 - 12.6MB) -- www.birmingham.ac.uk/Audio/new...
• University of Birmingham appoints Alice Roberts as first Professor of Public Engagement in Science www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/late...

[@MrDaiseymay]

So good to see my lovely local born girl from Bristol , achieving so much, and the recognition she deserves--from my city of birth--Birmingham.

[@b747guy9]

I have recently followed her and I have to say that she has a brain that is second to none. Very impressive woman, very impressive human being!

[@ThePierre58]

Half way through your excellent book, " Ancestors".

[@Hemulen40]

Prettiest professor evva !

[@MrDaiseymay]

+Par N. Yep--a rare creation--beauty and brains in a wonderful wrapping.

[@JonnyRollin]

If Alice Roberts had been my Professor,I would've turned up for all my lectures and any of her others I could gatecrash,whilst trying not to look like a stalker.

[@vrvdq8fvtvsvckihje827]

Hello madam, we non-English speakers need to translate it to it for all of your posts🌹🙏

[@bertiecrocker]

SOSOSO-SWEEEEET

[@ShawnBean]

At the risk of sounding elitist, how do we control the _quality_ of the results of "communal research?" It's all very well to observe that we benefit from the intermingling of ideas made possible by our means of communication, but it doesn't take much effort at all -- particularly in the day and age of the internet -- to turn up vast volumes of the tripe that result when uneducated people get hold of a germ of an idea and run with it without bothering to truly understand the idea or to learn how it relates to other concepts.
What makes the opinions of a very large number of relatively poorly educated people in some esoteric topic worthy of consideration as equal in any way to the opinion of one individual who has spent years of great effort delving into the subject and learning it intimately?
I'm not trying to establish the argument from authority as particularly valid in its own right. But it seems it would be a better ground for issuing statements about a matter than any argument from ignorance could be.

[@dukeon]

yummy...

[@daschamaeleon]

i would give 10 thumbs up, if i could..... like..100..... check that: a billionbillionbillion^^ : -)

[@chusan01]

Shut thee gob Alice!

[@BagaYaba]

The "scientist" who thinks humans can change sex, because clownfish can....