Dr Martina Hutton is Co-Director of the Centre for Research into Sustainability (CRIS) in the School of Business and Management and serves on Royal Holloway's ESRC Impact Accelerator Steering Group.

She is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Marketing Management, and an Editorial Review Board member of Consumption, Markets & Culture. Currently she is Co-editor of several forthcoming special issues: “GenderS and Consumer Well-being” in the Journal of Consumer Affairs; "Impact through Transformative Consumer Research" in the European Journal of Marketing and; "Transformative Consumer Research in the Next Era of Marketing" in AMS Review.

Dr Hutton also serves as a member of the Transformative Consumer Research (TCR) Advisory Board, and in 2023 Chaired the TCR Dialogical Conference at Royal Holloway.

Dr Hutton's research examines consumer poverty, sustainable communities, and social-material exclusion/marginality (poverty, hunger, post-prison).  She has published widely on these issues in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Marketing Theory, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Qualitative Market Research, Consumption, Markets & Culture and Journal of Marketing Management. 

A recipient of the Per Østergaard Award at the 2022 EIASM Interpretive Consumer Research workshop, methodologically her interests lie in alternative empirical representations of marginality and social justice research methods.  In 2023 she received the Inaugural Mary Kinghorn Davies Award for Research Impact from the Academy of Marketing for her study "Radical Community-Response-Ability: Learning Partnerships with Others"

Her work has been funded by the Academy of Marketing, Association for Consumer Research (TCR Funding Awards), the Marketing Trust and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.