A psychologist, lecturer and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences, and Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth.
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All my work is available here in publications or on Academia.edu and 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
You might like to know:
TSC 2022 – Dialogue V2 with Susan Blackmore and Deepak Chopra 26-5-2022
An Encounter with Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby on BBC Radio 4 27-2-2022
Read the latest on my Facebook page
My Blog Psychology Today
My top 5 books on “weird experiences” on Shepherd: Discover the best books
Winfield AFT, Blackmore S. 2021 Experiments in artificial culture: from noisy imitation to storytelling robots.
My interview on the Rhys Lindmark Podcast “How memes gave rise to the third replicator” . Sept 2021.
VSI (Very Short Introductions) Podcast – Consciousness by Susan Blackmore. 1.10.2020
My TED talk (in 23 languages). Also on Memes & Tremes “Dangerous Memes” & 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 The Skeptic, Vol 26 No.2, 2016
The British Humanist Association, BHA, asked ‘What’s it all for?’ This is my answer.
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 son Jolyon Troscianko, who drew the pictures for my books Consciousness, VSI, and ConCon.
My daughter Emily Troscianko, Research Associate at University of Oxford.
You can read about Emily and her anorexia in the Mail, on ABC News, in her blog, and in mine at CiF.
Their father, the late Tom Troscianko.
For any urgent work-related requests please see my contact page.
You can get married in our house – find out more about our Green Weddings
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.
My ORCID iD (a permanent researcher identifier that helps make research activity more traceable) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0845-2223
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.