He taught in the School of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Manchester in the UK in the late 1990s. After gaining his teaching credentials at the East Anglia in Norwich in 2000, he joined the faculty at the University of Redlands in 2002.

He has supervised senior theses on subjects as diverse as the renaissance in Maori moko (tattooing), patterns of surveillance in the photography of Sally Mann, and the sculpture of Bandinelli. He also seeks to create opportunities for curatorial experience among students, working with the University’s art collections.

As well as publishing on aspects of artists’ biographies in the sixteenth century, on drawings and paintings made in the ambit of Leonardo da Vinci, and on architectural drawings by Peruzzi, Dr. Britton also writes on production design for film and television.

He has co-authored one book on the subject, "Reading Between Designs," which dealt with costume and scenic design in "The Avengers," "The Prisoner and Doctor Who," and is developing a more wide-ranging follow-up volume on interpreting design imagery in TV and film.

He is also working on a book on notions of artistic creativity and melancholy in Medicean Florence, focusing on Francesco Salviati.

His doctoral research, on which he continues to build, was based on the influence of the theory of four humors (or temperaments) in Italian Renaissance art and its literature.