Jude Hannam is an educator with over twenty years’ experience teaching in primary, TEFL and informal education settings. After working in Germany, Italy and the UK, she wanted to formalise and expanded her knowledge of education systems around the world. She completed a Masters in Education (Globalisation and International Development) at the Faculty of Education in Cambridge, where her research focused on assessing how marginalised communities access education. 

Jude was the first DEFI team member, joining Prof Rupert Wegerif in 2020, and also acted as research assistant for Inquiring Science, a DEFI project at Hughes Hall, Cambridge which aimed to teach the philosophy of science to primary children and to improve their engagement with online sources of information.  As Networking and Communities Manger she developed numerous research and dissemination workshops and networking events both in person and online and contributed to the resulting outputs.  Some of these are listed below.

Currently she is working on a number of research projects and co-editing two books on education futures.

Recent publications

Casebourne, I., Hannam, J., & Abu Sitta, F. (2025, December). Glimpse into the futures of teacher wellbeing: A DEFI foresight study (ISBN 978-1-7384336-3-6). https://www.deficambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Glimpse-into-the-Futures-of-Teacher-Wellbeing.pdf

Abu Sitta, F., Maddox, B., Casebourne, I.,  Hughes, S., Kuvalja, M., Hannam, J., & Oates, T. (2023). The futures of assessment – Navigating uncertainties through the lenses of anticipatory thinking. Cambridge: Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI) & Cambridge University Press and Assessment. ISBN number: 978-1-7384336-0-5.

Kerslake, L. & Hannam, J. (2022). Designing media and information literacy curricula in English primary schools: Children’s perceptions of the internet and ability to navigate online information. Irish Educational Studies, 41(1), 151–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2021.2022518