Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore, born in 1951, is a British writer, lecturer, sceptic and broadcaster and a visiting professor at the University of Plymouth, whose research covers memetics, parapsychology and consciousness. She graduated from St Hilda College, Oxford, in psychology and physiology in 1973, took an MSc in environmental psychology at the University of Surrey and in 1980 earned a PhD in parapsychology there with a thesis on extrasensory perception as a cognitive process. She taught at the University of the West of England until 2001. Her attitude to the paranormal moved from belief to scepticism after years of experiments, and she is best known for her book The Meme Machine, having written or contributed to over 40 books and 60 scholarly articles.