Matthew has an extensive university career including roles as Academic Registrar at Oxford Brookes University, and Director of the Graduate School and Director of Undergraduate Recruitment at Durham University.
In addition to institutional governance his current role encompasses Human Resources, Academic Registry, Academic Partnership Services, Students Services (including Chaplaincy, Housing and Welfare, Student Advice and Guidance, Student Wellbeing, Unisport, and Your Future Plan) and Communications, Marketing, and Student Recruitment, and Sustainability. Matthew is also the strategic lead for internationalisation and a member of the University Executive.
Matthew has an interest in the history of universities as well as the contemporary sector and is the author of ‘Universities in the Age of Reform, 1800 – 1870: Durham, London, and King’s College’.