Hannah Perry

Hannah Perry

Associate Director, Information Ecosystems

Hannah is Associate Director (Information Ecosystems) and co-leads Demos Digital at Demos. She leads research programmes and experiments that inform and evaluate media, digital and education policy-based solutions with a view to enabling healthy, inclusive and democratically enriching information environments.

Having joined Demos in late 2023, Hannah has led studies into how we strengthen local information ecosystems and advance digital rights.  She currently manages Demos’ new local digital democracy experiment, Waves, and our Epistemic Security programme and network.  She brings over a decade of experience leading mixed-methods research and social behaviour change communications and education programmes with a focus on tackling harmful attitudes and behaviours online and offline, both in the UK, East Africa and Asia Pacific. She is a qualified secondary school English teacher (PGCE), has a SOAS MA in Migration & Diaspora Studies and an MSc on the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute.