Philip Hancock is a Professor of Work and Organisation at Essex Business School at the University of Essex, UK. His academic background is in theoretical and qualitative sociology, and he holds an MA in Philosophy and Social Theory from the University of Warwick, UK and a PhD from Keele University, UK. His research interests include practices of organisational aestheticization, the architectural management of space and place, recognition and precarity amongst live performers and, in particular, the production and reproduction of socio-economic and organisational relations at Christmas. He has published widely in leading journals in the field of organisation studies and sociology, and has published books such as Work, Postmodernism and Organization: A Critical Introduction (Sage) and Art and Aesthetics at Work (Palgrave), while his latest book, Organizing Christmas, is to be published by Routledge in 2023.