| Jem Stansfield | |
| Birth Name: | Jeremy Stansfield |
| Birth Date: | [1] |
| Nationality: | British |
| Years Active: | 2001–present |
| Alma Mater: | Bristol University |
Jeremy Stansfield (born 1970) is a British engineer and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC One science show Bang Goes the Theory.
Stansfield has a degree in aeronautics from Bristol University and, before his television career, worked in a Czech school, as a shepherd in the Australian outback, and briefly in stand-up comedy.[2] Stansfield was an on-screen ballistics expert for the television show Scrapheap Challenge and went on to become a permanent part of the engineering team for subsequent series.[3] [4]
Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a New Scientist prize).[5]
In 2010, Stansfield used vacuum cleaners to create "Spider-Man style" climbing gloves, climbing 30 feet up a brick wall.[5] [6] He also drove a modified 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco 210 miles from London to Manchester using coffee granules for fuel.[7] [8]
In 2013 Stansfield sustained injuries during filming of a segment for the series Bang Goes the Theory. The segment was about the safety of front-facing and rear-facing seats in car crashes. Stansfield was in a cart which crashed, simulating the impact of a car hitting a lamppost and suffered from spine and brain injuries as a result.
In 2021 Stansfield was awarded £1.6m in damages after a High Court battle.[9] It emerged in court that the BBC had been warned of the dangers by crash test experts but this information was never passed to Stansfield.[9]
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–2003 | Science Shack | Presenter | ||
| 2002–2003 | Home On Their Own | Inventor / Engineer | ||
| 2004 | Zero to Hero | Engineer | ||
| 2006 | Scrapheap Challenge | Staff Engineer | Briefly credited as "Ballistics Expert" | |
| 2006 | Men in White | |||
| 2006 | Wild Thing: I Love You | Presenter / Aeronautical Engineer | ||
| 2008 | Planet Mechanics | Presenter | 8 episodes | |
| 2009–2014 | Bang Goes the Theory | Presenter / Head of Engineering | 49 episodes | |
| 2010 | Explosions: How We Shook the World | Presenter | Documentary | |
| 2010 | Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention | Science correspondent | ||
| 2011 | Big, Bigger, Biggest | Presenter / Engineer | 4 episodes | |
| 2012 | Horizon | Presenter | April 2012 episode entitled "Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials" | |
| 2012 | Stargazing Challenges | Presenter | ||
| 2013 | Newsround | Judge | for "You Too Could be an Absolute Genius" segment |
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Lost in Space | Special effects technician | For Magic Camera Company | |
| 1998 | The Avengers | Special effects | ||
| 2004 | Van Helsing | Special effects |