Biography:Carole Jahme

Short description: British writer and science communicator

Carole Jahme is a British writer and science communicator. In her early career she was also a performer and TV producer. She is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.

Career

Carole Jahme has a master's degree in evolutionary psychology.

Before becoming a writer and scientist, Jahme was an actor, model and dancer, and she performed in Gerry Cottle's Circus on 'trapeze, tightrope, clowning, acrobatics'. She appeared as a dancer in the 1992 movie Chaplin and acted in Moll Flanders in 1996. In 1996, she was also the producer on a TV documentary called Sex and Scientists: Beauty and the Beast and in 2000, she was the writer, director and producer on a BBC1 television game show called House of Games, hosted by Carol Smilie.

In 2000, Jahme published a book about female primatologists, including Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birutė Galdikas, called Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution, and in 2011 a science-fiction novel followed, called Worth Their Weight in Blood. During the period of 2011–2015, she wrote many articles on psychology and primates for The Guardian .

She wrote and performed two shows at the Edinburgh Fringe: Carole Jahme is Sexually Selected in 2004 and Carole Jahme is Bio-diverse! in 2010. The shows were humorous explorations of scientific topics including gender psychology, human evolution and primate conservation. In 2010, she appeared in a documentary on Animal Planet called Michael Jackson and Bubbles: The Untold Story.

She is currently working on several writing projects as well as researching the evolution of empathy for an anthropology doctorate at University College London.

Awards

• 2004, Wellcome Trust Award for communicating science to the public
• 2010, European Commission Award for comedy-theatre science production
• 2012, Science and Technology Facilities Council Award for public engagement