Her research interests include meta-analysis, survival analysis, and ethics in mathematics, and she has participated in highly-cited studies on autism and cerebral palsy.
[1] She also frequently visits the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in South Africa as a volunteer statistics instructor.
[2] Hutton read mathematics and statistics at the University of Edinburgh, earning a bachelor's degree with first class honours in 1982.
After studying for a diploma in mathematical statistics at the University of Cambridge, she earned a PhD at Imperial College London in 1986.
[3] Her dissertation, Non-negative time series and shot noise processes as models for dry rivers, was supervised by David Cox.