Jem Stansfield

Jem Stansfield
Born	Jeremy Stansfield December 1970 (age 54)[1]
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Bristol University
Occupations	Engineer Television Presenter
Years active	2001–present

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.

Career

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.[9]

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]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
2001–2003	Science Shack	Presenter
2002–2003	Home On Their Own	Inventor / Engineer[2]
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

Film

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1998	Lost in Space[2]	Special effects technician	For Magic Camera Company
1998	The Avengers[2]	Special effects
2004	Van Helsing	Special effects

References

1. "Jem STANSFIELD". Gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
2. Grimshaw, Vicki (6 July 2002). "Wacky Inventor Jem Stansfield Creates Amazing Gadgets to Make Kids' Dreams Come True in a New TV Series". Daily Mirror.^[dead link‍]
3. "BIOGRAPHIES: Planet Mechanics". National Geographic Channel. Archived from the original on 13 May 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
4. Gould, Julie (November 2013). "Speaking to... Jem Stansfield". Speaking of Science. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
5. Hough, Andrew (16 February 2010). "Jem Stansfield: 'human spiderman' scales 30 ft wall using only vacuum cleaner suctions". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
6. Nosowitz, Dan (25 July 2009). "British Man Climbs Up Side of Building Using DIY Vacuum Gloves". Gizmodo. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
7. "Bang goes the coffee in drive for science in Manchester". BBC News. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
8. "TV host's coffee car nears finish". Metro. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
9. "Jeremy Stansfield: Bang Goes The Theory host wins £1.6m BBC damages". BBC News. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.

External links

• Jem Stansfield at IMDb