Hannah, the Associate Editor of the New Statesman, was previously Senior Journalist and Investigations Producer at the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight, and is the author of Time to Think: the Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children; last year it won the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.  

Hannah led Newsnight’s coverage of the care available to young people experiencing gender-related distress, which helped precipitate an extensive NHS review and unearthed evidence that was later used in several sets of legal proceedings. Newsnight's reporting also led directly to an inspection by the healthcare regulator the Care Quality Commission, which branded the NHS's only youth gender clinic in England 'Inadequate.' The management team of the clinic was disbanded as a result and the work was nominated for an array of journalism awards, including the prestigious RTS Television Journalism Awards.

Deputy Head David James says: “Gender identity has become one of the most divisive issues in politics today and finding a voice that is both objective and informed is difficult.  We are delighted that Hannah has agreed to speak to parents and students of LEH about her research.

“LEH is a diverse and inclusive school which is fully supportive of all our students.  We know that this subject is contentious and has to be treated with great sensitivity and respect.  We also believe that, as a school, we have to promote intellectual curiosity, dialogue, and brave thinking and, difficult though some subjects are our students will encounter them, and debate them, once they have left us.  We want them to go beyond the headlines, to arrive at their own conclusions, informed by different perspectives.”

Hannah’s Be Bold Lecture is at LEH on Wednesday 18th September at 7pm. Tickets cost £5 and you can reserve your place here: Be Bold Lectures.