Philip Roscoe

Philip Roscoe is professor of management at the University of St Andrews. His research takes a sociological approach to markets: he has researched and written on financial markets, online dating, organ transplants, 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 ten winners of the inaugural AHRC BBC Radio 3 ‘New Generation Thinkers’ scheme, and maintains a keen interest in public engagement with research. 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 jointly 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).