Professor Len Scott
Dean of Social Sciences
BA, MA, DPhil
Contact
Email: lvs@aber.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622697
Biography
Prof Scott arrived in Aberystwyth in 1990 following seven years in Westminster and Whitehall. After completing his DPhil at Oxford in 1983, where he held a research post at Nuffield College, he became political adviser to Rt Hon Denis Healey, MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, in 1984. In 1988 he joined Her Majesty's Treasury. He was appointed Lecturer in International Politics at Aber in 1990, and promoted Senior Lecturer (1997), Reader (2001) and Professor (2004). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The founding Director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies 2004-7, he resumed this role in 2009. Prof Scott was Dean of Social Sciences from 2000 to 2005, and returned to this post in September 2009.