Dr Matt Offord

  • Senior Lecturer in Experiential Leadership Education (Management)

Biography

Matt is a wide awake leadership educator.  Inspired the works of the educational philosopher, John Dewey, who called for the widening and deepening of conscious life, Matt curates learning experiences which develop critical reflection about leadership.  He encourages students to be alert to the things around them, by taking them into outdoor settings or by using simulations and escape rooms to increase engagement and conscious thinking.

Matt is a second career academic, sometimes known as 'pracademics', a growing number of academics with experience of practice outside of research and education.  Matt's former occupation was as a naval officer spanning almost 30 years.  After completing a PhD in leadership studies and post-doc research at the University of Oxford, Matt left the Navy to teach leadership in the age of data, getting out of the classroom to reflect on the impact of responsible and irresponsible leadership on people and the planet.

Matt is passionate about the role of teaching in Higher Education and as the Associate Director for Learning and Teaching (Scholarship of Learning and Teaching), Matt encourages and mentors education-focussed colleagues to embrace professional and scholarly teaching.

 

Research interests

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

Matt is interested in applied research in leadership and management education.  This is increasingly centred on action research which reflects on researching one's own teaching practice to discover what works (and what doesn't).  As a pragmatist, Matt believes that 'knowledge is for action', which means engaging with the complexity of social processes and reflecting on experience.  Specifically, Matt is interested in experiential learning, creating conscious, 'wide awake' reflection on everyday experiences by getting out of the classroom and learning about the world.  Matt does this through outdoor learning, ecopedagogy, walking pedagogies, games based learning, escape rooms and simulation.

 

Publications

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Number of items: 36.

2025

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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.

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

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Brand, Charlotte and Kendal, Jeremy (2024) Prestige-biased social learning. In: Tehrani, Jamshid J., Kendal, Jeremy and Kendal, Rachel (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198869252 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.16)

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

2023

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

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2023) Educational technology: A postdigital social tradition. Postdigital Science and Education, (doi: 10.1007/s42438-023-00445-1) (Early Online Publication)

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

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078 and Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Barr, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0673 and Mullen, Helen ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Gibb, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-7625 and Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2022) Battle of Trafalgar - Self Organisation Demonstrator. [Artefact]

2021

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

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827 and Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Thompson, Karen ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827 and Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865, Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 and Tasler, Nathalie (2021) SoTLcast Podcast: Transitioning into HE from Private Sector. [Audio]

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Barr, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0673 and Mullen, Helen ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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)

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Number of items: 36.

Articles

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992 (2023) Educational technology: A postdigital social tradition. Postdigital Science and Education, (doi: 10.1007/s42438-023-00445-1) (Early Online Publication)

Karlsson, Paula Sonja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078 and Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Barr, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0673 and Mullen, Helen ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827 and Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Thompson, Karen ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Book Sections

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Brand, Charlotte and Kendal, Jeremy (2024) Prestige-biased social learning. In: Tehrani, Jamshid J., Kendal, Jeremy and Kendal, Rachel (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198869252 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.16)

Edited Journals

Karlsson-Brown, Paula ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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]

Research Reports or Papers

The Institute of Leadership ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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.

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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.

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Gray, Michael, Leeper Jr., Matthew, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Gibb, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-7625 and Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827 and Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992, Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Barr, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0673 and Mullen, Helen ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Conference Proceedings

Offord, Matt ORCID logoORCID: 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,

Artefact

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

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

Audio

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

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

Website

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

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

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

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Grants

Grant

Description

Amount

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.  He is best suited to supervising students in the field of leadership and management education, business education or professional training.

  • Mazid, Tasfia
    The Role of Paradoxical Leadership in Influencing Followers to Deal with Multiple Contradictory Demands'
  • Shi, Jiafan
    Women’s leadership in quantum computing: challenges and opportunities in addressing disruptive innovation

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 is a Senior Fellow of Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET) and Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE).  He is the School academic lead for Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching (TELT) and AI. As an Associate Director of Learning and Teaching, with a focus on scholarship, Matt supports other teaching focused academics to publicise their work and develop teaching focused careers. Matt is on the Professional Standards Board for Certified and Management Business Educators at the Chartered Association of Business Schools.  He also mentors early career learning and teaching academics and PhD tutors.

Matt specialises in the use of experiential learning through practical ecopedagogy, outdoor learning, serious games, simulations and case teaching.  He teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and has delivered executive education around the world. Matt has published research on the use of educational escape rooms and also works with business partners to use escape rooms in learning development programmes.

 

 

 

 

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 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

  • 2023: Member, British Academy of Management
  • 2022: Senior Fellow, Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET)
  • 2020: Certified Management and Business Educator, Chartered Association of Business Schools
  • 2017 - 2024: Fellow, The Institute of Leadership

Selected international presentations

  • 2024: AMBA and BGA Global Conference (Budapest)
  • 2022: 27th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (Quebec City)

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.  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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