Dr Simon Scott

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Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences
Associate Professor
Programme Lead, BASc Arts and Sciences

Contact details

Address
Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences Hub
ERI Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

My research interests include interdisciplinarity, the philosophy of interdisciplinarity, and ancient and continental philosophy.

I convene the University of Birmingham's Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Education Group. The membership of this group includes staff from across the university with interests in teaching interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, as well as pedagogical innovation. I also co-lead the working group on Integration Experts, part of the ITD Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity.

I co-edited the article collection ‘Practice-Based Research of Interdisciplinary Higher Education’ for the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications of Springer Nature with Ida Kemp, Catherine Lyall, and Iris van der Tuin. I'm co-editing a book on Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Pedagogies and Practice (to be published in October 2025). I'm on the editorial board of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.

Qualifications

  • BA (Kent)
  • MA (Royal Holloway)
  • PhD (Warwick)
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Teaching

  • Stage One: Interdisciplinary Foundations
  • Stage Two: Interdisciplinarity: Study & Practice, 
  • Stage Three: LANS Independent Research Project (supervision)
  • Masters: The World of Interdisciplinary Research, Continental Philosophy of Religion: Selected Themes and Issues

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome enquiries related to the teaching of interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and the philosophy of interdisciplinarity.

Research

Simon’s research is in interdisciplinary studies and the philosophy of interdisciplinarity, as well as ancient and continental philosophy. He leads the university’s Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Education Group.

 

Other activities

  • Member of the editorial board of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.
  • External examiner for the Open University’s Open Programme and the University of Manchester’s Liberal Arts programme.
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Scott, S 2022, 'Two central challenges that arise in an introduction to interdisciplinarity module (and responses to them)', Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 69-80. <https://interdisciplinarystudies.org/issues/#>

Chapter

Scott, S 2020, Loving and Living Well: the Importance of Shame in Plato's Phaedrus. in L Candiotto & O Renaut (eds), Emotions in Plato. Brill's Plato Studies, Brill, pp. 270-284.

Scott, S 2018, The Artistry of the Priest and the Philosopher: Ressentiment in Gilles Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy. in S van Tuinen (ed.), The Polemics of Ressentiment: Variations on Nietzsche. Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 51-66.

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