Scott is Subject Lead and Lecturer for Design Innovation and Future Heritage and a Research Fellow at GSA's Rural Lab. He is an early modern historian whose research explores piracy and maritime history in the insular maritime world of the British Isles and Ireland in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Scott also worked on the AHRC-funded Unpath’d Waters Project, which worked towards aggregating the UK’s maritime heritage collections and investigating new methods of displaying maritime data. He was responsible for co-designing a maritime immersive system through community-led design workshops with multiple key audiences across the UK.