Corinne Hutt was born in Sri Lanka and came to England to study, attending Manchester University, where she gained a degree in psychology, which was to lead her into work at the Park Hospital in Oxford and then to a research career at Keele University.
In the early 1970s Corinne and her husband Professor John Hutt were awarded a research grant from the Department of Education and Science to explore young children's lives and learning in different types of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings - maintained nursery schools and classes, playgroups (pre-schools) and social services-run day nurseries. At the same time, a team had been funded to find out how four-year-olds spent their days at home.
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