Ron Roberts is a chartered psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and honorary lecturer in psychology at Kingston University. He has previously worked at King's College London, University College London, St Bartholomew's Medical College, The Tavistock Institute, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Westminster, and has published over 60 peer reviewed articles and is the author and editor of 13 books, including Parapsychology (with David Groome), Psychology and Capitalism, Mental Health in Crisis (with Joel Vos and James Davies) and the late Svetlana Boym's The Origins of Nostalgia: Memories and Reflections. As well as pioneering work on student mental health and student participation in the sex industry, he contributed to Antarctic Resolutions which won the 2021 DAM Architectural Book Award and the 2022 Grand Prize of the European Commission honouring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts.