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Hannah's research and development work is grounded in interdisciplinary Participatory Action Research and focuses on digital and data innovations. Hannah is convenor of Trustable Credit, an adhocracy co-developing open standardised processes for digital devices and their data measuring carbon, biodiversity and nature improvements.
She is co-leader of the Scottish Conservation Finance Pioneers Group, and sits on the Advisory Team of UK AgriTech Centre Agrimetrics. Hannah is on the independent advisory board of the £10m DECaDE Centre for the Decentralised Economy.
Hannah was elected as Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2016, and as Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce in 2007. She was Honorary Fellow at Durham University in 2015-19, and from 2007-2015 was Associate Lecturer and Research in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University.
Hannah has interests in Digital Ethics, and is a member of The Scottish Government’s Digital Identity Scotland Technical Expert Group, and was a former member of the Scottish Government’s 2020 Climate Group. She co-authored Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) in Public Services commissioned and published by The Scottish Government in 2018, and is an Expert Evaluator for the European Commission’s European Innovation Council. She was Special Advisor to the Cultural Enterprise Office and Scottish Arts Council/Creative Scotland. She is also an experienced non-executive director and serves as Board Trustee for the National Galleries of Scotland. She has also previously held directorships/trusteeships on the boards of Dynamo North East, New Media Scotland and Macrobert Arts Centre.
Hannah was Strategic Transformation Director at DLT start-up Wallet.Services, and was a part of the leadership team growing the company to successful scale-up. As an entrepreneur, Hannah also founded and ran Envirodigital 2009-16, creating digital products that gave people agency to reduce carbon in their businesses and lives.
As a Digital Transformation Expert, She was Associate Director at international firm BOP Consulting ‘17-‘18, establishing their Organisational Transformation capability. During ’16-’17, she worked with global science and tech solutions company Leidos as Associate Principal Consultant, developing their Digital Transformation practice.
Prior to that, Hannah ran her own practice, which designed and delivered national Digital Transformation programmes. Attracting £multi-millions, and impacting over 250 enterprises at C-suite level, the programmes used Hannah’s academically verified and internationally renowned The Digital:Transformation Approach. Hannah made keynote addresses on it at national conferences in Mexico and Australia and the UK.
As one of the European pioneers of Hyperdrama, she is cited on Wikipedia and in many academic papers. Her 1997 Hyperdrama, The Benefactor, is studied worldwide as a play written in hypertext, and has been translated into Chinese, German, Italian and Spanish. She co-produced with the National Theatre of Scotland the award-winning 24 hour online live participatory show, Five Minute Theatre.