Hannah is a social gerontologist with a background in literature and theatre. Hannah has written about the role and value of the arts for people with dementia and the complicated ways in which our culture represents ‘dementia’. She collaborates with a range of colleagues from clinicians to scientists and artists and has investigated the possibilities of artistic co-creativity with people with dementia. Hannah is co-investigator on the UKRI funded Culture Box project (2020 – 2021).