Roger Kneebone is a clinician and educationalist who leads the Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music–Imperial Centre for Performance Science.

His multidisciplinary research into contextualised simulation and embodied knowledge builds on his personal experience as a surgeon and a general practitioner and his fascination with domains of expertise beyond medicine. Roger collaborates with the Victoria & Albert Museum, Science Museum, Natural History Museum and the Royal College of Art. Particularly interested in collaborative research at the intersections between traditional disciplinary boundaries, he brings considerable knowledge and insight to thinking on art and the nature of craft.

Roger is a full member of the Art Workers Guild and in 2017 Roger was named the Art School’s first Honorary Fellow, in recognition of his commitment to stimulating cross-disciplinary dialogue to foster new and innovative ways of thinking and approaches to disciplines, in the arts, science and beyond.

Roger is an accomplished speaker and author, with a particular focus on the process of 'becoming an expert.’ His book, Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery, published in August 2020 by Penguin Viking, outlines his research on the embodied ways of knowing developed by experts in different fields and how these can inform one another. Roger has also given TED talks and lectures for organisations worldwide on this topic, sharing his insights on what it takes to become an expert in any field.

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