Dr Christopher Hutton

Professional biography

My scholarship / research interests focus on three main areas linked to my teaching activities, these include: online community building, employablility skills development, online peer mentoring, and improving the accessibility of online learning for students with disabilities and in secure environments. I am currently co-lead for two eSTEeM funded projects in these areas, and present my work at various national and international conferences. 

I am a member of the presentation module teams for S112 Science: concepts and practice and S206 Environmental Science. I was involved with both production and presentation of S112 and SDT306 (Environment: responding to change) where my work involved designing tuition strategies, producing tuition resources, staff development of tutors, assessing and adapting resources for accessibility, moderating forums, designing and running preparatory websites, and advising students / colleagues on aspects of tuition. I was an author and Deputy Chair for production of S840 (Master of Environmental Science Research Project), and will chair this module when it first presents in Oct 2024. I am also looking forward to writing materials for S226 (Environmental Science). I have a Staff Tutor role (academic line management of Associate Lecturers) on S111, S112, and S(XF)206.

Within the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, I led the development of preparatory sites for our modules, and have also been involved in rolling out our peer mentoring ("student buddy") scheme with a colleague.

I have contributed to degree approvals as an external academic advisor, and was involved in writing the Royal Society of Biology's Foundation Degree Accreditation Criteria; I now act as an accreditation assessor. I have worked as an External Examiner for the last 9 years.