Michael Scott (academic)

{{Short description|British academic and university administrator}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

Michael Scott is a British academic and university administrator. A professor of English literature, he was vice-chancellor of Glyndŵr University in Wrexham, Wales until 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/en/AboutGlyndwrUniversity/Governance/ExecutiveGroup/ProfessorMichaelScott/ |title=Professor Michael Scott |accessdate=2013-11-19 |publisher=Glyndŵr University |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217074137/http://glyndwr.ac.uk/en/AboutGlyndwrUniversity/Governance/ExecutiveGroup/ProfessorMichaelScott/ |archivedate=February 17, 2013 }}

Educated at the University of Wales, Lampeter and the University of Nottingham, Scott holds a PhD from De Montfort University. He was professor of English and head of the school of humanities at Sunderland Polytechnic, before becoming pro vice-chancellor of De Montfort University in 1989. Scott was, for 14 years, visiting professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.