
Dr Scott Strachan
Principal Teaching Fellow
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
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Prize And Awards
- Nomination for Teaching Excellence Award for Excellence in Sustainability
- Recipient
- 13/5/2025
- Teaching Excellence Award Nomination for Most Diligent Educator
- Recipient
- 13/5/2025
- Appointed as one of only 3 International VIP Ambassadors by the VIP Executive Committee
- Recipient
- 8/5/2025
- Shortlisting in Employability Award for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship by AGCAS
- Recipient
- 5/3/2025
- Engineering Development Trust Dedication Award for supporting EDT National Industrial Cadets Programme
- Recipient
- 13/6/2024
- Shortlist of 4 for Teaching Excellence Award in category Excellence in Sustainability
- Recipient
- 15/5/2024
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Publications
- Starting a European VIP hub
- Strachan Scott, Chin Paul, Dejus Brigita, Marie Vafors Fritz
- International VIP Consortium Annual Meeting (2025)
- Strathclyde/MUET ELEVATE Pakistan - Empowering learning through vertically integrated teams and education in Pakistan
- Strachan Scott, Abbas Shah, Coyle Edward
- International Vertically Integrated Projects Conference (2025)
- Using experiential learning to engage students in interdisciplinary education for sustainable development : a vertically integrated project case study
- Paliwoda Katya, Strachan Scott, Rance Duduzile
- Advance HE Annual Sustainability Symposium (2025)
- Perspectives on developing skills and competencies through Education for Sustainable Development : how do we do it, and who is responsible?
- Strachan Scott, Lefever Joan-Emilie, Wesolowska Ksenia, Vaughan Helen, Moreno-Rangel Alejandro
- (2024)
- Understanding solar minigrid sustainability and impact through a holistic Key Performance Indicator framework
- Eales Aran, Banda Elizabeth, Frame Damien, Strachan Scott
- Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability Vol 4 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/ad8fcd
- LV distribution network modelling : suggested practices for developing countries
- Keddar Shafiqa, Sims Ryan, Strachan Scott, Frame Damien
- 2024 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica 2024 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/PowerAfrica61624.2024.10759354
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Professional Activities
- Green Gown Award Judging Panel (Event)
- Peer reviewer
- 3/7/2025
- 2025 Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference
- Speaker
- 10/4/2025
- ESD, Me and a Cup of Tea
- Participant
- 27/3/2025
- Strathclyde Sustainability Symposium
- Participant
- 26/3/2025
- UK-Turkey Internationalisation in HE Forum
- Invited speaker
- 4/3/2025
- Learning for Sustainability Scotland: ESD and quality - reviewing our mapping exercise
- Speaker
- 28/2/2025
Projects
- Spencer grant application with European Consortium
- Strachan, Scott (Principal Investigator)
- TEL4All – Mainstreaming an Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive approach to
Transformational Experiential Learning through Vertically Integrated Projects - The proposal titled "TEL4All – Mainstreaming an Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive approach to
Transformational Experiential Learning through Vertically Integrated Projects" aims to address the
challenge of ensuring Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Higher Education (HE) through
Transformational Experiential Learning (TEL). TEL profoundly shifts learners' perspectives, enhancing
competencies, leadership, and career prospects. However, historically under-represented student groups
face barriers to accessing TEL opportunities.
The proposal examines Vertically Integrated Projects (VIPs) as a model to increase EDI in TEL. VIPs
involve interdisciplinary, inter-year, team-based learning, engaging students in collaborative, faculty-led
research for academic credit. This model has been adopted by over 50 institutions worldwide and
provides key advantages integral to TEL, such as critical thinking, self-awareness, and resilience.
The project aims to develop a 'TEL4All' systems transformation framework to make TEL accessible to all
undergraduate students, including historically under-represented groups. This involves integrating VIP
into existing curricula with large scale academic and leadership buy-in, addressing administrative and
resource challenges. TEL4All will guide VIPs into US and European curricula, measuring the EDI-TEL gap
and the VIP model's impact on closing it. The project aims to inform HE policy and support
mainstreaming TEL in HEIs, providing equitable access to TEL for all students. - 11-Jan-2025
- QAA Collaborative Enhancement Projects: Call for Expressions of Interest
- Strachan, Scott (Principal Investigator)
- A Toolkit for embedding ESD Education for Sustainable Development), EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) and Employability, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in HE through Vertically Integrated Projects
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2026
- Creating Innovative and Active Co-learning Environments for Sustainable Partnerships in the Higher Education Area
- MacLachlan, Ross (Principal Investigator) Thomson, Avril (Principal Investigator) Henderson, Emma (Co-investigator) MacLachlan, Ross (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Strachan, Scott (Co-investigator) Thomson, Avril (Co-investigator)
- 19-Jan-2022 - 19-Jan-2024
- Strathclyde Climate Ambassadors Network
- McLeod, Debbie (Principal Investigator) Strachan, Scott (Co-investigator) Faulkner, Suzanne (Co-investigator)
- Research project to audit opportunities in ITE courses to promote Education for Sustainable Development in line with the GTCs standards for registration
- 17-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2023
- Produced briefing and presentation for Principal on a ‘Just Energy Transition in the context of a UK – India’, Climate Change & Energy Mtg with Lord Stern
- Strachan, Scott (Principal Investigator)
- 03-Jan-2022
- Filmed Education and Activism piece for CfSD’s website video.
- Strachan, Scott (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022
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Contact
Dr
Scott
Strachan
Principal Teaching Fellow
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: scott.strachan@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2609