Scott Daniel is Associate Professor in Humanitarian Engineering. A former high school mathematics and science teacher, he has worked in 10 countries on 5 continents, and as a consultant and facilitator with UNESCO, Australian Volunteers for International Development, Engineers without Borders Australia, Unbound, the Macquarie Global Leadership Program, World Vision, the University of Sydney, the Victorian Department of Education and Training, and the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. Previously, he had a regular radio segment as “Dr Scott” on ABC Gippsland, and on ABC Central Victoria, answering listeners’ questions about science. His current research focuses on the development of socio-technical thinking and co-design expertise in the context of humanitarian engineering, and humanitarian engineering education and practice in general.

Scott is Deputy Editor at the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. He has previously served as Vice-President of the Bendigo Discovery Science & Technology Centre, Board Director of EWB Australia, and on the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Engineering Education, the African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, and the Journal of Humanitarian Engineering. 

He won the 2019 Australasian Association for Engineering Education Award for Research Design for his work with Andrea Mazzurco on the assessment of socio-technical thinking and co-design expertise in humanitarian engineering, the 2023 Research Design Award with Sasha Nikolic and colleagues investigating the impacts of GenAI on assessment, and the 2024 AAEE Engineering Education Excellence Award as part of the Winter Research School facilitation team.

Scott is an enthusiastic science communicator, for example producing the "Science at Home" video series with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), amongst other media appearances.

Science at Home with Dr Scott, ABC Central Victoria:

- Pressure
- Observation and inferences - Part I
- Observation and inferences - Part II
- Ink chromatography
- Chromatography follow up and colour diffusion
- Tea Bag Rockets
- Burning candles
- Understanding pitch
- Musical coathanger
- Making wine glasses sing
- Boiling points
- The Stroop Effect
- Understanding Surface Tension
- Geometry and gravity
- Balance and Gravity follow-up


Other media:

- STEMpunk podcast appearance
- Riding towards a PhD, The Thesis Whisperer
- Teaching Science in Namibia - Radio National