Dr Matt Offord

Senior Lecturer in Experiential Leadership Education (Management)

telephone: 0141 330 3680
email: Matt.Offord@glasgow.ac.uk

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992

Biography

Matt is a leadership scholar. Focussing on leadership education, Matt is developing the idea of the ecological business school as the future of business education. The ecological business school is a development which engages with people, society, planetary health, and other ecosystems. Fundamentally, the ecological business school engages with multiple forms of knowledge, rather than focussing in disciplinary silos.

Matt teaches through outdoor education, simulation and games as well as other more traditional modes. The subject of his teaching is always about personal development of leadership skills which promote personal growth and responsible leadership. Matt has a PhD in management and is currently studying for an EdD, based on his work for the ecological business school.

Research interests

Matt is a member of the School's Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour research cluster.

Matt is currently studying for his second doctorate, an EdD at the Institute of Education (UCL), ranked the world's Number 1 for education in the QS rankings. His research is looking at the ecological business school and the possibility that business schools can diversify and engage with the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century through ecological thinking.

Matt's first doctorate, a PhD was in leadership in Royal Navy warships, mapping the impact of prestige networks on decision making.

Publications

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Number of items: 47.

2026

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) AI is recoding leadership in the Information Age. AI Journal, 28 Aug.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) Towards the Ecological Business School – Challenges and Opportunities for Management Education. UCL Institute of Education CDE Doctoral Student Conference 2026, UCL, London, UK, 18 June 2026. (Accepted for Publication)

Varga, Zsuzsanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6149-4225, Mathers, Hannah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8577-1896, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Mcgregor, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8910-6490 and Walker-Milne, Natasha ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9575-0626 (2026) Learning Through Fieldtrips: Institutional Experience, Student Involvement and Skills for Life. 19th Annual University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, 30 March - 01 April 2026.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) SoTL in Practice: What Can I Do? CMBE Community Meeting, Online, 19 Feb 2026.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) SoTL in Practice: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and How to Get Started. CMBE Community Meeting, Online, 03 Feb 2026.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) The deceptive simplicity of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. [Website]

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) Beyond the artificial: practical ecopedagogy in management assessment. In: Black, Kate and Rostron, Ali (eds.) Doing Assessment Differently in Management Education. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

2025

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2025) Teaching DEI at Sea: A Practical Application of the Escape Room. International Association of Maritime Institutions Annual Conference 2025, Glasgow, Scotland, 6th November 2025.

Alamanos, Eleftherios, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 and Budhwar, Pawan (2025) Successful India/UK Research Collaboration. India–UK Business School Dialogue, New Delhi, India, 16 - 17 Sep 2025.

Pickles, Madeleine, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Taylor, Claire and Tursunbayeva, Aizhan (2025) Best Practices for Utilising AI and Digital Technology in HR Education Staged by the UK Ambassadors of the Academy of Management (AOM) HR Division. AOM HR Division Webinar - Best Practices for Utilising AI and Digital Technology in HR Education, 11 Sep 2025.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Brand, Charlotte and Kendal, Jeremy (2025) Prestige-biased social learning. In: Tehrani, Jamshid J., Kendal, Jeremy and Kendal, Rachel L. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 220-229. ISBN 9780198869252 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.16)

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2025) Educational technology: a postdigital social tradition. Postdigital Science and Education, 7(2), pp. 406-429. (doi: 10.1007/s42438-023-00445-1)

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2025) Teaching in a Tangle: Beyond Hybrid Professionalism in the UK Higher Education Research-Teaching Nexus. Learning, Teaching and Student Experience 2025, Nottingham, UK, 19-20 May 2025.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Marciak, Sebastien and McCutcheon, Jacqueline (2025) Collaboration in the Wild: Three Perspectives on Co-Creating Ecopedagogy in Leadership Education. 18th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 02-08 Apr 2025.

Gibb, Alison ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-7625 and Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2025) Teaching in a Tangle: Beyond Hybrid Professionalism in the UK Higher Education Research-Teaching Nexus. Adam Smith Business School Celebration of Scholarship, Glasgow, UK, 27 May 2025.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 and Marciak, Sebastien (2025) Bimblecast: using ecopedagogy in business education. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 4(1), pp. 126-141. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.131)

2024

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Ecopedagogy – Authentic Learning, Teaching, Assessment, and Wellbeing. Teaching Innovation & Learning Enhancement (TILE) Seminar 2024-25, Online, 26 Sep - 10 Dec 2024.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Shedding light on the scholarship of teaching. [Website]

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Reframe taken-for-granted urban spaces with the Management Education Campus Field Trip Pack. [Website]

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Don't Get Lost in the Hype: Keeping a Clear Head About Assessment After the GPT Breakthrough. Education Matters Conference 2024, Newcastle, UK, 03 July 2024.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Ecoped: Elevating Management Education for 21st-Century Responsibility, Fostering Sustainable Practices and Ethical Leadership in Management. Learning, Teaching & Student Experience Conference (LTSE 2024), Birmingham, UK, 14-15 May 2024.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Unlocking Inclusivity: DEI Training in Maritime Education with Educational Escape Rooms. Learning, Teaching & Student Experience Conference (LTSE 2024), Birmingham, UK, 14-15 May 2024.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 and Kyosti, Veijo (2024) Welcoming AI to the Classroom: Faculty Support and Student Experience in a Business Simulation Context. AMBA & BGA Global Conference 2024, Budapest, 12-15 May 2024.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) A bridge over troubled water: Making management education meaningful through ecopedagogy. 17th Annual University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 09 April 2024.

Hall, Helen, Lewis, Tom, Garcia, Javier, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Hecking, Matthias, Neubig, Celine and Gervich, Curt (2024) Educational Escape Room Games - Online Conversation with Designers. [Artefact]

The Institute of Leadership ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Veteran Productivity Skills. Project Report. Institute of Leadership, Birmingham, UK.

2023

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2023) The Great Outdoors. [Website]

Ryland, Anthony and Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2023) The Value of Outdoor Learning. [Audio]

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2023) Educational Escape Rooms in Maritime Leadership Education. 2023 BAM MKE Teaching Practice Conference, UCL, London, 7 July 2023.

Karlsson-Brown, Paula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 and Enang, Iniobong (Eds.) (2023) Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World – Has Anything Changed? Continuity and Resilience Review. 5(2) [Edited Journal]

Karlsson, Paula Sonja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078 and Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2023) Higher education during crisis: a case study on organic resilience. Continuity and Resilience Review, 5(2), pp. 185-197. (doi: 10.1108/CRR-10-2022-0030)

Karlsson, Paula Sonja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 and Enang, Iniobong (2023) Guest editorial: resilience in a post-pandemic world – has anything changed? Continuity and Resilience Review, 5(2), pp. 113-115. (doi: 10.1108/CRR-07-2023-045)

Gray, Michael, Leeper Jr., Matthew, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 and Porteous, Rachel (2023) The Growing Role of Games in Social Science Innovation. Sustaining and Scaling Impact through Commercial Routes and Gaming [Workshop] - Hope into Action: Social Sciences Impact Conference, 20-21 March 2023.

2022

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2022) Agent Based Modelling to Demonstrate Self-synchronisation at The Battle Of Trafalgar: A Demonstration of Computational Methods for Teaching Command and Control. In: 27th ICCRTS Information Central, Quebec City, Canada, 25-27 October 2022,

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Quinn, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Barr, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0673 and Mullen, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865 (2022) The escape room: using a simple text-based game to promote business undergraduates’ digital self reliance. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 23, (doi: 10.47408/jldhe.vi23.855)

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Gibb, Alison ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-7625 and Quinn, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 (2022) Business Games for Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG). Learning Design and Education for Sustainable Development Bootcamp 2022, 24 March-20 June 2022.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2022) Battle of Trafalgar - Self Organisation Demonstrator. [Artefact]

2021

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2021) Day1b: Cheating is inevitable in business games. [Website]

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827 and Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2021) Developing a school-wide framework for blended and online learning and teaching (BOLT). Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9(2), pp. 109-117. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v9i2.481)

Hunter, Paul, Mullen, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Quinn, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Thompson, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1625-4641 (2021) Early adoption in an agile online teaching environment: an intrapreneurial perspective. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9(2), pp. 127-136. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v9i2.476)

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827 and Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2021) Developing a School-wide Framework for Blended and Online Learning and Teaching (BOLT). 14th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 18 Jun 2021.

Mullen, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865, Quinn, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 and Tasler, Nathalie (2021) SoTLcast Podcast: Transitioning into HE from Private Sector. [Audio]

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Quinn, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Barr, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0673 and Mullen, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865 (2021) The Co-Creation of a Digital Escape Room Designed to Develop Students’ Digital Confidence. SocMedHE21, 14 Dec 2021.

2020

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2020) Objections and Solutions to Online Learning. Online Learning Teaching and Student Experience (LTSE) Festival, Online Only, 15 Sep 2020.

2019

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Gill, Roger and Kendal, Jeremy (2019) The effects of prestige on collective performance and information flow in a strictly hierarchical institution. Palgrave Communications, 5, 4. (doi: 10.1057/s41599-018-0211-8)

2017

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2017) The Effects of Prestige on Collective Performance and Information Flow in a Strictly Hierarchical Situation. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Annual Conference, Paris, France, 6-8 April 2017.

2016

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Gill, Roger and Kendal, Jeremy (2016) Leadership between decks: a synthesis and development of engagement and resistance theories of leadership based on evidence from practice in Royal Navy warships. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 37(2), pp. 289-304. (doi: 10.1108/LODJ-07-2014-0119)

This list was generated on Sun Sep 27 11:18:20 2026 BST.

Number of items: 47.

Articles

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) AI is recoding leadership in the Information Age. AI Journal, 28 Aug.

Book Sections

Edited Journals

Research Reports or Papers

The Institute of Leadership ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Veteran Productivity Skills. Project Report. Institute of Leadership, Birmingham, UK.

Conference or Workshop Item

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) SoTL in Practice: What Can I Do? CMBE Community Meeting, Online, 19 Feb 2026.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) SoTL in Practice: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and How to Get Started. CMBE Community Meeting, Online, 03 Feb 2026.

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2023) Educational Escape Rooms in Maritime Leadership Education. 2023 BAM MKE Teaching Practice Conference, UCL, London, 7 July 2023.

Conference Proceedings

Artefact

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2022) Battle of Trafalgar - Self Organisation Demonstrator. [Artefact]

Audio

Ryland, Anthony and Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2023) The Value of Outdoor Learning. [Audio]

Website

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2026) The deceptive simplicity of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. [Website]

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Shedding light on the scholarship of teaching. [Website]

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2024) Reframe taken-for-granted urban spaces with the Management Education Campus Field Trip Pack. [Website]

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2023) The Great Outdoors. [Website]

Offord, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2021) Day1b: Cheating is inevitable in business games. [Website]

This list was generated on Sun Sep 27 11:18:20 2026 BST.

Grants

Grant	Description	Amount
Infinty G Accelerator	Funding to found a University Spin Oout Company developing sumulations for Maritime Education and Training (MET)	£20000
Knowledge Exchange Innovation Fund 2025	Funding for the development and commercialisation of educational escape rooms for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training in the maritime industry	£36000
Chancellor's Fund 2023 - 2025	The Ecopedagogy Teaching Project: Creating Sustainable and Affordable Impact for Future-Oriented Leaders	£1500
Aspect Innovation Fellowship 2023	Development and evaluation of escape room games for teaching in maritime education	£8000
ASBS Research Reinvigoration Fund 2022	Research into free-riding in group work in business education	£2000

Supervision

Matt is a practitioner-researcher with an interest in leadership and management education. Matt has supervised several PhD students to completion and has worked as an External Examiner for PhD and DBA students.

Chen, Quanbing
Bridging the Expectation Gap: An Exploratory Ethnography of Chinese Postgraduate Business Students’ Learning Experience in UK Higher Education
Lohse, Hendrik Udo
Senior Lecturer in Experiential Leadership Education

Matt currently supervises PhD students studying paradoxical leadership, post-heroic leadership, emotional regulation, trust and leadership expectations in the work force. Future supervision projects will focus on educational themes.

Teaching

Matt teaches at all levels of higher education and also in executive education. Active in professional education and consultancy, Matt works with industry and government partners to improve leadership capacity.

Matt's teaching in the university includes:

Undergraduate courses: Principles of Management, Futures in Leadrship
Postgraduate courses: Service Risk and Resilience, Delivering Performance

Additionally, Matt teaches on the MBA programme and courses outside of the business school, including War Studies and the Urban Data Analytics Centre.

Matt has conducted leadership development with partners such as Kaplan, Babcock International Group, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement Group and recently, the UK Cabinet Office.

Matt is a Principal Fellow of Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET), the university's professional development framework for education. He is also Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE) and works on the Professional Standards Board for CMBE.

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

2027: Shortlisted for Best Innovation Strategy for Creating the Ecological Business School (Association of MBAs and Business Graduates)
2025: Nominated (People Make Research)
2024: Shortlisted for the Best Innovation Strategy Award (Association of MBAs and Business Graduates)
2023: Shortlisted for the Innovation in Business Education Award 2023 by QS Reimagine Education 10th Anniversary Edition (QS)
2023: Distinction in MSc (Digital Education) (University of Edinburgh)
2021: Distinction in Post Graduate Certificate of Academic Practice (University of Glasgow)

Research fellowships

2023 - 2023: Aspect Innovation Fellow
2016 - 2017: RN Hudson Fellow (Oxford University)
2010 - 2017: RN Defence Fellow

Editorial boards

2022 - 2023: Continuity and Resilience Review (Special Edition)

Professional & learned societies

2026: Principal Fellow, Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET)
2023: Member, British Academy of Management
2020: Certified Management and Business Educator, Chartered Association of Business Schools

Selected international presentations

2024: AMBA and BGA Global Conference (Keynote) (Budapest)
2022: 27th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (Quebec City)
2025: International Association of Maritime Institutions (Key Note) (Glasgow)

Additional information

Matt is a former naval officer with 30 years experience, much of it at sea. He served as a submarine officer and later as mine warfare and clearance diving officer. During his service, Matt suffered significant sight loss. On leaving the Royal Navy in 2018, Matt worked as a freelance training consultant, working with prestigious consultancies, like Kaplan as well as blue chip companies, such as Babcock International Group and social enterprises like Police Now. All of this experience was data and technology led and heavily team-based.

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