Hanna is a Lecturer in Education and specialises in issues of feminism, gender and sexualities. After completing a PGCE in Secondary English Literature and Language at the UCL Institute of Education (2008), Hanna taught in London secondary schools for a decade including in a large comprehensive school, an academy, a hospital school, a performing arts school and a selective all girls’ school. During this time, she completed a MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck (2011). In 2014, through an engagement with a funded research project alongside Professor Jessica Ringrose (UCL) and Professor EJ Renold (Cardiff University), Hanna began setting up and facilitating feminism clubs in secondary schools which prompted her PhD study Feminism in Schools? A study of young people's engagements with feminism in six UK secondary school feminism groups. Hanna took up a Lecturer post at UCL IOE in 2019.