Ogden, Matthew

Matthew Ogden was appointed as a part time lecturer at Dundee Law School in 2023. Prior to this, he worked as an academic tutor with both the Law School and Academic Skills centre (2022-2023).

Undergraduate: Critical Approaches to Law; Public Law II; Law and Tech

Matthew's research focuses on the relationship between legal theory and the humanities as part of the field of cultural legal studies. As part of this, he is particularly interested in the role that popular culture has in not just depicting but developing jurisprudential issues.

With a particular specialty in video games, Matthew is also interested in the influence that the media through which legal issues are discussed has on understandings of the law. As part of this, he is also examining how contemporary developments in technology may be entrenching classical prejudices and biases.

Matthew is currently researching his doctoral thesis, examining how the BioShock series of video games subvert normalised video game logic in order to display the fallibility of Western understanding and how this understanding has resulted in systemic prejudice.