Dr Dylan Tutt
- Lecturer in Workforce Studies in Construction
- School Director of Academic Tutoring (SDAT)
- Academic Disability Representative
Office
124Building location
Chancellor's BuildingAreas of interest
- Ethnographic research and video based methods
- Migrant workers in construction
- Health and safety communication
- Hypermasculinity and construction
- Social interaction and work practices with technologies
Postgraduate supervision
Bernard Twum- Ethnographic investigation into the management of onsite production pressures and its effect on safety performance on construction projects in developing countries.
Morwenna Fellows- Migrant workers as informal interpreters on construction sites
Mohamed Alzarouni- Learning in the community energy sector in England and the role of networks in its facilitation
Ahmed Bannan- An investigation of the performance of Saudi Arabian higher education construction projects
Hiral Patel- The physical building in the enactments of the Library
Teaching
Convenorship: Health and Safety Management and Culture (CE3RHS)
Research Skills (CE3RSD)
Principles of Sustainable Construction (CEM610).
Research centres and groups
University of Reading Organisations, People and Technology Research Group
Research projects
SaKoSi Project (Danish Working Environment Research Foundation): Collaboration, communication and safety practices among Danish and foreign workers in the construction industry
Background
Dylan specialises in ethnographic and video-based studies of social interaction, communication and technology in complex organisational environments, including constructions sites, hospitals and the home.
His research at the University of Reading has investigated how social science perspectives, rooted in ethnographic research on construction sites and with construction workers themselves, can help to address some of the urgent concerns raised by the nature of the industry and the conditions of working in it. Dylan maintains a wider interest in quite diverse areas of cultural sociology, stemming from his background in sociology and visual culture.
Dylan has been an invited keynote speaker at international conferences, including ARCOM (The Association of Researchers in Construction Management) and the British Sociological Association (BSA), and has organised conferences and symposiums, including one recently with Danish colleagues at Reading Town Hall, funded by the Danish Working Environment research fund.
Academic qualifications
PhD in Sociology, Lancaster University (2005). Thesis title: Making Yourself at Home with Media: A Video Ethnography of Interactions with Media in the Living Room
MA (with distinction) in Visual Culture, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University (2001)
BA (Hons) American Studies, Lancaster University (2000).
Professional bodies/affiliations
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (with Distinction, 2014).
Websites/blogs
Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/DETutt
Academia: https://reading.academia.edu/DylanTutt