Dr Patrick Ring

Reader in Financial Services
Patrick is a qualified solicitor who worked in the corporate area of private practice and thereafter with a large life assurer before entering academia. His work spans both the theoretical and practical, looking particularly at retail financial services and their regulation, as well as risk and risk culture. Patrick has published in a wide range of journals including Journal of Social Policy, Economy and Society, Policy & Politics and Critical Social Policy. His 2020 paper with colleagues on COVID-19 published in the Journal of Risk Research is in the Journal’s top 3 most read articles of all time.

Patrick is an External Subject Specialist for the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment and on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Accounting, Finance and Auditing Studies. He has been a reviewer for the ESRC and various academic journals, and is an External Examiner for both UK and overseas institutions. He has worked extensively with local and national industry bodies, and more recently has worked on funded research for the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA).

He is interested in supervising PhD students conducting research in relation to pensions, the regulation of financial services, and risk culture in financial services.