Hutton Highlights

Hutton Highlights Latest edition: December 2025

This edition of Hutton Highlights features the opening of our brand new Hutton Hub, a state-of-the-art renovation to our Craigiebuckler campus which includes s cutting-edge technology and facilities such as interactive displays and touch tables, a podcasting suite, a video and sound editing suite, two spacious lecture theatres and a 360-degree Immersive Suite. We also cover the development of the first Scottish-bred blueberry, an economic report which unveils the Hutton’s fantastic contribution to the UK economy and how our experts are working to support potato farmers in Kenya.

There’s also an in-depth interview with Ian Toth, Director of the National Potato Innovation Centre, details about our new Philanthropy Office, and plenty of news about exciting campus investments and developments. Additionally, you’ll get to learn all about how bees could be used to monitor PFAS levels in the environment, how our colleagues are developing sustainable pesticide alternatives and what Scotland’s boar population could look like over the next 50 years. Finally, don’t miss details of upcoming events at the Hutton and opportunities to connect with our researchers and work.