Dr Adam Matthews

Adam Matthews

School of Education
Senior Research Fellow

Contact details

Email
a.matthews.3@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Education
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Adam is a Senior Research Fellow in education systems and policy. Adam’s work looks at universities as part of tertiary education systems and the role that they play as key sites of knowledge production and dissemination in wider society. This includes how technologies and media have and are shaping, knowledge production and access.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University 麻豆精选
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, University 麻豆精选
  • PGCert in Advanced Research Methods, University 麻豆精选
  • BSc (Hons) Combined Social Sciences (Psychology), Open University
  • HNC Computing, Solihull College

Biography

Adam has progressed into an academic career following part-time and distance study with the Open University and the University 麻豆精选.

Adam has worked in the field of education and media since 2006 as both a practitioner and academic. As a designer and writer in learning environments, he has worked in a diverse range of sectors including travel, retail, sports coaching, policing, media communications, banking and higher education. This included both design and leadership roles. His role now focuses predominantly on research but still has a keen interest in media for learning environments from both research and practice perspectives.

Adam’s academic research interests include the intersection of education, technology and society. His work has focused on higher education and the concept of the university in society across both time (historically) and space (across and between institutions, online and offline).

Adam’s research analyses discourses and policy objects surrounding the idea and purpose of universities and higher education in the past, present and future. This includes drawing upon policy studies, sociology and philosophies of education and technology as well as the broad and diverse field of New Materialism.

Adam is a social scientist by academic background and training and has an interest in interdisciplinary collaborations with other academic disciplines and industry as well as adopting creative research methods.

Teaching

  • Programme Lead – Design for Learning Environments

Doctoral research

PhD title

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Matthews, A 2025, '', Times Higher Education. <>

Davis, C, Matthews, A, Mihut, G, Mottershaw, S, Hawkins, J, Rivlin, P & Matthews, B 2024, '', Qualitative Research.

Jopling, M, Stewart, GT, Orchard, S, Suoranta, J, Tolbert, S, Cheilan, L, Yan, F, Price, C, Hayes, S, Scott, H, Latham, A, Bhatt, I, Dodonov, V, Matthews, A, Muhtaseb, R, Mackenzie, A, Owaineh, M, Earle, S, Simmons, B, Clarke, Z, La velle, L, Green, BJ, Brown, C, Watermeyer, R & Jandri膰, P 2024, '', Postdigital Science and Education.

Matthews, A & Kotzee, B 2022, '', British Educational Research Journal, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 578-597.

Matthews, A 2022, '', Postdigital Science and Education.

Matthews, A 2022, '', Postdigital Science and Education.

Matthews, A 2021, '', Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 26-40.

Chapter

Matthews, A 2023, . in NB Dohn, J Jaldemark, L-M 脰berg, MH Lindqvist, T Ryberg & M de Laat (eds), Sustainable Networked Learning: Individual, Sociological and Design Perspectives. 1 edn, Research in Networked Learning, Springer, pp. 189鈥�209.

Abstract

Matthews, A & Jackson, T 2024, '', Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom, 21/03/24.

Book/Film/Article review

Matthews, A 2022, '', Postdigital Science and Education.

Conference contribution

Matthews, A & McVitty, D 2023, . in SRHE Annual Research Conference Paper Archive. Society for Research into Higher Education, 2023 SRHE International Research Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 6/12/23. <>

Matthews, A & Cui, V 2023, . in SRHE Annual Research Conference Paper Archive. Society for Research into Higher Education, 2023 SRHE International Research Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 6/12/23. <>

Davis, C, Rivlin, P, Mottershaw, S, Mihut, G, Matthews, A & Matthews, B 2022, . in EuroSoTL 2022 Proceedings. Manchester Metropolitan University, pp. 37-41, EuroSoTL 2022, Manchester, United Kingdom, 16/06/22.

Matthews, A 2022, . in Networked Learning Conference 2022., 17, Aalborg University. <>

Poster

Matthews, A 2022, '', 2022 SRHE International Research Conference, 5/12/22 - 9/12/22.

Expertise

Higher education; technology; media; democracy; equity; AI