Sarah Hutton

Sarah Hutton (she/her/ella) is an experienced academic research librarian, educator, and data analyst with a specialisation in open education, governance frameworks, organizational theory, and strategic planning. She is a seasoned educator in experiential learning methods, making and makerspaces, and teacher training; she also has experience in competency standards development and credentialing in maker literacies and makerspace training programmes. Sarah is certified in LGBTQIA+ Foundations and Allyship, and is an expert in the application of Universal Design for Learning Principles (UDL) to education and communications content development. 



Sarah has experience with shared governance models in consortia, open publishing and data standards, and human-centered design and research. She works primarily with the Internet of Production Alliance as their Research and Community Engagement Lead, and also fills a research appointment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education and guest lectures at UMass on the topics of Public Interest Technology, Public Policy, Research Methods, and the future of information access. Sarah’s methodological specializations are in hermeneutic phenomenology and grounded theory; her doctoral research focuses on open knowledge production, self-determination theory, and where the two intersect with learning theory and critical thinking.