Dr Matt Offord
- Lecturer in Leadership and Management Education (Management)
telephone:
0141 330 3680
email:
Matt.Offord@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-1992Biography
Matt is a Lecturer in Leadership and Management Education. His interests are in 21st Century Leadership, specifically the influence of informal prestige networks and data-driven decision making. As a learning and teaching specialist, Matt is especially interested in experiential learning through outdoor learning, serious games and case teaching.
Matt is a second-career academic, having served for 30 years in the Royal Navy as a submariner and also as a mine clearance diver. He ran his own business as a management consultant working with well known business education companies and in the maritime sector, working in the UK, Middle East and Europe.
Research interests
Matt is a member of the School's Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour research cluster.
Matt's research into decision making under stress in the Royal Navy led him to develop a simulation of information transmission through prestige networks. This research was used to inform Royal Navy training at the time and led to publication. Matt's background in sociocultural evolution was used to explain the importance of prestige in leadership and how leadership structures evolve. He uses this to teach about 21st Century Leadership, especially the role of informal networks for agile decision making.
His specific interests are:
- Cultural Evolution of Leadership and Higher Education
- Leadership in the 21st Century
- Prestige
- Social Networks
Grants
|
Grant | Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|
|
RN Defence Fellowship 2010 - 2017 | Research into prestige based informal leadership in Royal Navy warships in the UK and South Atlantic |
£150000 |
|
Senior Hudson Fellowship 2016 - 2017 | Research into Royal Navy Officer Training using Social Network Analysis based at St Antony's College, University of Oxford |
£20000 |
|
ASBS Research Reinvigoration Fund 2022 | Research into free-riding in group work in business educaiton |
£2000 |
|
ASPECT Innovation Fellowship 2023 | Development and evaluation of escape room games for teaching in maritime education |
£8000 |
Supervision
I am interested in supervising in the following fields:
- Experiential Learning theory
- Outdoor Learning
- Agent Based Models in teaching
- Business simulation games
- Digital business education
- Pedagogy of simulation
- Sociocultural evolution in the leadership studies field
- Mazid, Tasfia
The Role of Paradoxical Leadership in Influencing Followers to Deal with Multiple Contradictory Demands'
Matt currently supervises three PhD students studying paradoxical leadership, post-heroic leadership and emotional intelligence. Matt has also supervised undergraduate Business & Management students and MBA students.
Teaching
Matt is a Senior Fellow of Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET) and Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE). Matt specialises in the use of experiential learning theory in 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.
Interests:
- Experiential Learning Theory
- Outdoor Learning
- Serious Games
- Business Simulation Games
- Digital Educational Escape Rooms
Professional activities & recognition
Prizes, awards & distinctions
- 2021: Distinction in Post Graduate Certificate of Academic Practice (University of Glasgow)
Research fellowships
- 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
- 2021 - 2022: Member, The Cultural Evolution Society
- 2017: Fellow, The Institute of Leadership and Management
- 2022: Senior Fellow, Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET)
Selected international presentations
- 2022: 27th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (Quebec City)
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