Scott has a PhD in Molecular & Cellular Biology from the University of Glasgow, where he taught extensively in undergraduate tutorials and labs at Glasgow from 2007 to 2012. Since then, he has worked variously as the Good Practice Adviser in learning and teaching for the University, and the Effective Learning Adviser for students in the College of MVLS since. He coordinates the credit-bearing modules 'Intro to Communicating Science', 'Rationality and Scientific Debate', and 'Contemporary Public Science Communications', as well as two modules on T2G, the transition course open to all incoming undergraduates: 'From Bread Mould to Big Data: Biotechnology Through the Decades', and 'Scientific Philosophy'. Scott is currently Secretary of ScotHELD, the professional network for Scottish Higher Education Learner Developers. Publications Scott is the co-author of Writing for Science Students (Palgrave): a handbook for undergraduates, as well as for international postgraduates who studied their first degrees in higher education systems that did not assess heavily by essays. Writing for Science Students won Book of the Year 2018, as voted by the Academic Booksellers' Association. A second book, Writing a Science PhD (MacMillan), is also available for postgraduate research students.