Roger Smith is Reader Emeritus in History of Science, Lancaster University, UK, and Honorary Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, UK. He took early retirement from Lancaster in 1998 and then lived in Moscow, Russia, until the outbreak of war in 2022, where he was an Honorary Researcher of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He has published five academic books in the history of science, and edited others, on topics related to the history of mind-brain and the intellectual history of human nature and the human sciences. He has also published, for wider audiences, four books, including with Routledge (2023), Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience.