Matthew Barr

Dr Matthew Barr is Head of Education & Practice at the University of Glasgow’s School of Computing Science, and Programme Director for the Graduate Apprenticeship in Software Engineering. Matt is also co-director of the University’s Games and Gaming Lab, having established the university’s first game studies course in 2014 and founded the peer reviewed student games journal Press Start the same year. He was appointed Director of Education for SICSA (the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance) in 2021 and is a founding editor of the journal, Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He previously served as Vice Chair of British DiGRA (the Digital Games Research Association) and as a Trustee and Director of the Scottish Game Developers Association. Until 2022, Matt was a member of the BAFTA Scotland Committee, where he acted as the Games Jury Chair. Matt is also the director of the Ada Scotland Festival, which aims to improve gender balance in Computing Science education across Scotland. He also champions inclusion and diversity through his membership of several national groups, including the Scottish Apprenticeship Advisory Board Equalities Group and the Scottish Government’s Digital Economy Skills Group.