Phillipp Richard Schofield FRHistS FAcSS FLSW is a medieval historian and a professor in Aberystwyth University's Department of History and Welsh History.
Schofield graduated from University College London in 1986, with a BA in ancient and medieval history.
He then undertook a doctorate at Wadham College, Oxford, under the supervision of Barbara Harvey: his DPhil was awarded in 1992 for his thesis "Land, family and inheritance in a later medieval community: Birdbrook, 1292–1412".
After spending a year working for a commercial law firm, Schofield returned to the University of Oxford to take up a research position at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in 1993.
Schofield's research focuses on the English medieval rural economy and society.