She is the Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
[1] Philippa Hoskin studied for a BA in history at Somerville College, Oxford, and was subsequently awarded a doctorate for a thesis which examined the administration of the diocese of Worcester in the thirteenth century.
In 2019 she was appointed Director of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where she is the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Fellow Librarian,[2] as well as being a Principal Research Fellow in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
She is the general editor of the British Academy's English Episcopal Acta project (which studies the administration of English medieval diocese from the 11th- to the early 14th-centuries) and of Lincoln Record Society's medieval record series.
[4] Her most recent work has concerned Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln and scholar (c.1168–1253), producing both an edited edition of his administrative roll, Robert Grosseteste as Bishop of Lincoln: The Episcopal Rolls 1235-1253,[5] and a monograph about his pastoral care, Robert Grosseteste and the 13th-Century Diocese of Lincoln: An English Bishop's Pastoral Vision (2019).