I am a psychologist, lecturer and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth.
You can follow me on Facebook and you can find my work online through Academia.edu and on ResearchGate
You can find out more about me here: Who am I? or view my CV
You can see my forthcoming events and contact me here.
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View my Guardian articles and visit my blog on Psychology Today
My discussion with Jordan Peterson on Premier Christian Radio, part of The Big Conversation video series from Unbelievable? “Do we need God to make sense of life?”. 8 June 2018
New edition of Consciousness: An Introduction. Third edition, co-authored with Emily Troscianko. Published by Routledge April 2018, with extensive companion website. For now it’s UK only – let me know if you think there should be a US edition!
I will be talking at Psycherence, a one day conference on psychedelics and consciousness in Tallinn, September 2018.
The last Edge question 2018. My question: What kinds of minds could solve the mind-body problem?
Watch my lecture on ‘Positive scepticism: The new science of out-of-body experiences‘ at European Skeptics Conference, Sept 2017, Wroclaw, Poland
Podcast on OBEs with Mel Van Dusen. August 2017
Podcast for the Spiritual Naturalist Society. The science of consciousness and Zen seem to have converged in my life – also about my new book on out-of-body experiences. 01.08.2017
Dan Dennett and I had a fun ‘Conversation’ about his new book at the Bristol Festival of Ideas on 22.02.17. Listen and see my Facebook page.
Featured in 100 Global Minds: The Most Daring Cross-Disciplinary Thinkers in the World by
My TED talk (with subtitles available in 23 languages). To find out more about Memes and Tremes see “Dangerous Memes” and my feature article in the New Scientist: Evolution’s third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?
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‘Close Encounters’, A BBC documentary about alien abductions that I presented back in 1994 – recently made available on YouTube.
BBC Radio 4 “A Place of Silence”, recorded in 1998. A half-hour documentary about the Maenllwyd retreat in rural Wales.
Castaway on Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4, 3.5.98 and 8.5.98.
The third eye? Cover illustration from The Skeptic, Vol 26 No.2, 2016
The British Humanist Association, BHA, asked for answers to ‘What’s it all for?’ This is mine.
Skeptic Trumps – See the full deck here.
I am listed in: 100 Global Minds: 2015 and 30 most influential psychologists (25).
My husband, Adam Hart Davis.
My daughter Emily Troscianko, Research Associate at University of Oxford.
My son Jolyon Troscianko, who drew the pictures for my books Consciousness, VSI, and ConCon.
Their father, the late Tom Troscianko.
You can read about Emily and her anorexia in the Mail, on ABC News, in her blog, and in mine at CiF.
I am drastically cutting the time I spend on emails. Find out why here. For any urgent work-related requests please see my contact page.
I am an Honorary Member of Population Matters
Patron of Transform Drug Policy Foundation
Patron of the British Humanist Association
Ally of Naturalism, Enthusiastic Bright
Distinguished Supporter of Atheism
Supporter of Pipedown
I am on the Advisory Board, Brain Preservation Society.
I am a Fellow of the GWUP (German Skeptics Organisation – Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences)
I am on Facebook this is my official page, there are other pages about me on Facebook but they are nothing to do with me.
I have left LinkedIn because of the large number of requests from people I do not know.
I am not on Twitter.