Dr Philip Roscoe
Reader
Director of Teaching
Biography
I joined the School of Management at the University of St Andrews in 2009 as lecturer, and was promoted to Reader in 2013. From 2008-2009 I was assistant professor at Supdeco Montpellier in France, and before that a research assistant at the University of Lancaster. Since arriving at St Andrews I have been a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow (2016), and have published in leading sociology and management journals, notably Organization Studies, Accounting Organizations and Society, Economy and Society and Organization, with monographs published by Oxford University Press and Penguin. I am associate editor of the Journal of Cultural Economy. I hold a PhD in management from the University of Lancaster (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 I worked as a financial journalist and small-business owner.
Teaching
- MN4236 Sociology of Finance
- MN5001 Contemporary Global Issues in Management
Research areas
I am a qualitative social scientist interested in markets ? how markets are organised and how they work as organising devices. I am a leading member of the growing field of ?market studies?, an approach informed by science and technology studies, as well as sociology, accounting and organization studies. My work emphasises the ethical and political dimensions of markets. I have, for example, studied the organisation of ?fairness? in transplant allocation and how online dating enacts instrumentally rational, calculative romances. I have a long-standing interest in financial markets, often taking a critical perspective: my most recent project constructed a historical sociology of two stock markets founded in the 1990s. I advocate participatory, impactful work, an approach that I seek to follow in my own practice. Beyond contributions to my field, I am best known for my long-running interest in public engagement: I was one ten winners of the inaugural AHRC BBC Radio 3 ?New Generation Thinkers? scheme, launched in 2011, and published a book ?I Spend therefore I Am? (Penguin/Viking) for a broader audience in 2014. I was shortlisted for the 2014 Deutscher Wirtschaftsbuchpreis. I am currently producing a podcast series ?How to Build a Stock Exchange?.
PhD supervision
- Olga Loza
- Ban Lee
Selected publications
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How to Build a Stock Exchange (podcast)
Roscoe, P. J., 2019Research output: Non-textual form ? Digital or Visual Products
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The dark side of Responsible Management Education: an ontological misstep?
Roscoe, P. J., 2020, (Accepted/In press) SAGE Handbook of Responsible Management Learning and Education. Moosmayer, DC., Laasch, O., Parkes, C. & Brown, K. (eds.). SageResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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Hong Kong protests and Brexit could both end up benefiting financial elites
Roscoe, P. J., 16 Aug 2019, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication ? Article
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Creating economy: enterprise, intellectual property and the valuation of goods
Townley, B., Roscoe, P. J. & Searle, N., 26 Jan 2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 256 p.Research output: Book/Report ? Book
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Strategy, spectacle, or self-emptying? Sacrifice and the search for business ethics
Roscoe, P. J., 2019, Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard?s Mimetic Theory across the Disciplines. Pally, M. (ed.). Bloomsbury AcademicResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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The ?ography of markets (or, the responsibilities of market studies)
Roscoe, P. J. & Loza, O., 2019, In : Journal of Cultural Economy. 12, 3, p. 215-227 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Practices and meanings of non-professional stock-trading in Taiwan: a case of relational work
Chen, Y-H. & Roscoe, P. J., 2018, In : Economy and Society. 46, 3-4, p. 576-600Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Performing a myth to make a market: The construction of the ?magical world? of Santa
Palo, T., Mason, K. & Roscoe, P. J., 2018, In : Organization Studies. OnlineFirstResearch output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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The rise and fall of the penny-share offer: A historical sociology of London?s smaller company markets
Roscoe, P. J., Oct 2017, University of St Andrews. 120 p.Research output: Book/Report ? Other report
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Performativity matters: economic description as a moral problem
Roscoe, P. J., 25 Aug 2016, Enacting Dismal Science: New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics. Boldyrev, I. & Svetlova, E. (eds.). PalgraveMacMillan, p. 131-150 (Perspectives from Social Economics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter