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. Three years later,he took up a post in the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge,before joining Aberystwyth University in 1998. As of 2018,he is a Professor in the Department of History and Welsh History;he is currently head of that department. He understands and speaks Welsh. Since 2011,he has been co-editor of the Economic History Review,a scholarly journal. Schofield's research focuses on the English medieval rural economy and society.[1][2]
Peasants and Historians:Debating the Medieval English Peasantry,Manchester Medieval Studies series (Manchester University Press,2016).
(Co-edited with Elizabeth New,Susan Johns and John McEwan) Seals and Society:Medieval Wales,the Welsh Marches and Their English Border Counties (University of Wales Press,2016).
(Edited) Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages (Oxbow Books,2014).
(Co-edited with Gérard Béaur,Jean-Michel Chevet and María Teresa Piréz Picazo) Property Rights,Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (Brepols,2013).
(Co-edited with R. A. Griffiths) Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages:Essays Presented to J. Beverley Smith (University of Wales Press,2011)
(Co-edited with Thijs Lambrecht) Credit and the Rural Economy in North-Western Europe,c. 1200–c. 1850 (Brepols,2009).
(Co-edited with Bas J. P. van Bavel) The Development of Leasehold in Northwestern Europe,c. 1200–1600 (Brepols,2009).
(Co-edited with Peter Lambert) Making History:An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline (Taylor &Francis,2004).
Peasant and Community in Medieval England,1200–1500 (Palgrave Macmillan,2003).
(Co-authored with Nicholas Mayhew) Credit and Debt in Medieval England,c. 1180–c. 1350 (Oxbow Books,2002).
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