Dr Scott Burchill is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of International & Political Studies at Deakin University.

Before joining Deakin University in 1990 he was a political officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Indochina & Europe desks) in Canberra. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the University of Tasmania. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the Peacekeeping Centre at the Australian Defence Force Warfare Centre in Newcastle and the Army Command and Staff College in Queenscliff. Since 1999 he has also lectured at the Australian Defence College in Canberra.

He is the author of The National Interest in International Relations Theory (Palgrave, London 2005), and co-author of Theories of International Relations, (4th edition, Palgrave, London 2009),  Global Crises And Risks (Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2008) and Australia in the World (Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1996).

Scott appears regularly on 774 Melbourne ABC Radio with Jon Faine and ABC2 (Channel 22) ABC News Breakfast TV. He also writes for The Age.