Philip Hancock

Philip Hancock is Professor of Work and Organisation at Essex Business School at the University of Essex, UK. He holds degrees in social science, philosophy and social theory, and organisation studies - the latter being his PhD which was awarded by Keele University in 2004. His academic career started, largely by chance, in 1995 when he took up his first full-time academic post as a Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at University College Scarborough, now a campus of the University of Hull. He has subsequently held posts in sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University, and organisational behaviour at the University of Warwick where he rose to the position of Reader before accepting a Chair at Essex in 2010. He writes on a range of increasingly unorthodox topics that are broadly related to work and its organisation, with his current work focusing on the relationship between the organisation of Christmas and patterns of social reproduction.