Susan Blackmore

Dr. Susan Jane Blackmore is a British freelance writer[?], lecturer[?], and broadcaster[?], perhaps best known for her book The Meme Machine.

Career

In 1973, Susan Blackmore graduated from St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford, with a BA (Hons) in psychology and physiology. She went on to do a postgraduate degree in environmental psychology[?] at the University of Surrey, achieving an MSc in 1974. In 1980, she got her PhD in parapsychology from the same university, her thesis being entitled "Extrasensory Perception as a Cognitive Process".

She has done research on memes (which she wrote about in her popular book The Meme Machine), evolutionary theory, consciousness, and the paranormal.

She has also appeared on television a number of times, discussing such paranormal phenomena as ghosts, ESP, and out-of-body experiences, in what she describes as the "unenviable role" of "Rentaskeptic", and she has also presented a show on alien abductions. Another programme which she has presented discusses the intelligence of apes. She also acted as one of the psychologists who featured on the British version of the television show "Big Brother", speaking about the psychological state of the contestants.

She has been on the editorial board for the Journal of Memetics[?] (an electronic journal[?]) since 1997, and has been a consulting editor of the Skeptical Enquirer[?] since 1998.

Family

In 1977, she married fellow academic Prof. Tom Troscianko[?], and they had two children: Emily Tamarisk Troscianko[?] (born February 20, 1982), and Jolyon Tomasz Troscianko (born May 17, 1984).

She is now the partner of Dr. Adam Hart-Davis.

External links

• Susan Blackmore's website (http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/)
• Brief description of Susan Blackmore (http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/whoami.htm)
• Susan Blackmore's CV (http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/curricul.htm)