Jennifer Beamish

Jennifer Beamish has 10 years experience producing and developing high profile broadcast documentaries for TV networks throughout the world including BBC, National Geographic, PBS, and Discovery.  The Great Sperm Race, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK and Discovery Canada, told the story of human conception from a helicopter & scaled up 34,000 times to human size. It was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award.  Journey of Man was a 90-minute epic about the peopling of the world presented by Dr. Spencer Wells for National Geographic and PBS. The film won a Cine Golden Eagle Award for Excellence. In addition, she has worked on long running series, including Secrets of the Dead for PBS and Channel 4, Raging Planet for Discovery and Horizon for BBC and PBS NOVA.

She has a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Imperial College, London and a M.Sc. in Science Communication, also from Imperial College.