 He went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford which was awarded for his research in neuroplasticity of the hippocampus of laboratory rats from the supervised by Alan Larkman in 1994.Hannay is a non-executive director of SAGE Publications and director of School Dash Limited.He was previously a director of Write Latex Limited (creators of the LaTeX editor overleaf.com) and Symplectic Limited.