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 involved in a supporting capacity with an eSTEeM project looking at the experiences of our LGBTQ+ students.

I am the Module Team Chair of S840 Master of Environmental Science Research Project. I was involved with both production and presentation of S112 (Science: concepts and practice) 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 for production of S840 (Master of Environmental Science Research Project), and am presently an author of the freshwater block of S226 (Environmental Science). 

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.