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Carole Jahme

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'''Carole Jahme''' is an award-winning writer and science communicator. In her early career she was also a performer and TV producer.

In 2000 she published a book about women who work with primates, including [[Jane Goodall]], [[Diane Fossey]] and [[Birute Galdikas]], called 'Beauty and the Beasts', and in 2011 a science-fiction novel followed, called 'Worth Their Weight in Blood'.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2IBjjhd The Guardian - Profiles]</ref>

In 2004 she performed a humorous show about science called ''Carole Jahme is Sexually Selected'' at [[Edinburgh Fringe]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2Gq1C2A Carole Jahme - Appearances]</ref> and in 2010 she returned to Edinburgh with a show called ''Carole Jahme is Bio-diverse!'', in which she performed as a [[humanzee]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2Ix9TDe The Guardian - Edinburgh Festival 2010]</ref>

2011-2015 she wrote many articles on [[psychology]] and [[primates]] for [[The Guardian]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2IBjjhd The Guardian - Profiles]</ref>

In 2010 she appeared in a documentary on [[Animal Planet]] called ''Michael Jackson and Bubbles: The Untold Story''.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2Gq1yzS The Mirror - Bubbles and Michael Jackson's Relationship was Bananas]</ref>

She is currently working on several writing projects as well as researching the evolution of [[empathy]] for an [[anthropology]] doctorate at [[University College London]].<ref>[http://jahme.com Carole Jahme]</ref><ref>[http://bit.ly/2IB2dje University College London - Anthropolitan]</ref>

==Early Career==

Before becoming a writer and scientist, Jahme was an actor, a model and a dancer, and she performed in Gerry Cottle's Circus on 'trapeze, tight trope, clowning, acrobatics'.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2Gq1DDG Carole Jahme - About]</ref> She appeared as a dancer in the 1992 movie [[Chaplin (film)|Chaplin]] and acted in [[Moll Flanders (1996 film)|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]].<ref>[https://imdb.to/2IBiXaa IMDB - Carole Jahme]</ref>

==Awards and Honours==

In 2004 Jahme won a [[Wellcome Trust]] Award for communicating science to the public. In 2010 she won a [[European Commission]] Award for comedy-theatre science production. In 2012 she won a [[Science and Technology Facilities Council]] Award for public engagement and she is a Fellow of The [[Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce|Royal Society of Arts]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2IBjjhd The Guardian - Profiles]</ref>

She has a master's degree in [[evolutionary psychology]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2IBjjhd The Guardian - Profiles]</ref>

==References==


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