Fellow 2025-2026 Philip Roscoe
Philip Roscoe is Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cultural Economy. He has researched and written on financial markets, online dating, Santa's Lapland hideaway, and many other topics.
He has been a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow and has published in leading sociology and management journals. In 2011 he was one of ten winners of the inaugural AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers scheme. From 2019 to 2020, he wrote and produced an acclaimed podcast titled How to Build a Stock Exchange. His most recent books are How to Build a Stock Exchange (Bristol University Press, 2023) and the edited volume Market Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He is currently finishing a short introduction to markets, What Are Markets For? (forthcoming, Bristol University Press, 2026). His book I Spend Therefore I Am (2014), translated as Rechnet sich das? (Hanser, 2014), was shortlisted for the Handelsblatt FT Deutscher Wirtschaftsbuchpreis.
Philip arrived in St Andrews in 2009. Before this, he was Assistant Professor at SupdeCo Montpellier and a post-doctoral researcher at Lancaster University. He holds a PhD in Management from Lancaster University (2007), an MPhil in Medieval Arabic Thought from the University of Oxford (1998), and a degree in Theology from the University of Leeds (1995). From 1998 to 2004, he worked as a financial journalist.