Hilary Rose

Work Rose has published extensively in the sociology of science from a feminist perspective and has held numerous appointments in the UK, the US, Australia, Austria, Norway, Finland and at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden. She is visiting research professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and professor emerita of Social Policy at the University of Bradford. She was the Gresham Professor of Physic between 1999 and 2002. In 1997, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden for her contribution to the feminist sociology of science. In 2001, her book Love, Power and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences was listed one of the "101 Best Books of the 20th Century" published by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. She collaborated for a number of years with the European Commission research division on mainstreaming women scientists in the European research system.

Together with neuroscientist Steven Rose, to whom she was married, Her most recent books, with Steven Rose, are Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology (Verso, 2012) and Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (Polity, 2016).

She was a founder member of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science in the 1960s, and more recently has been instrumental in calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions for as long as Israel continues its occupation of the Palestinian Territories, on the grounds of Israeli academics' close relationship with the IDF. An open letter, initiated by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, and also signed by 123 other academics, was published in The Guardian on 6 April 2002. In 2004, Hilary Rose was one of the founding members of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, a key part of the academic boycott movement.

Rose has co-authored or co-edited 13 books and over 150 articles.

Selected bibliography

Books Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (with Steven Rose), 2016, Polity, Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology (with Steven Rose), Verso, 2013 The commodification of bioinformation: The Icelandic Health Sector Data Base (monograph), The Wellcome Trust, Public Interest, 2001 Alas, Poor Darwin: Escaping Evolutionary Psychology (with Steven Rose, editors), Cape, 2000. Science and Society (with Steven Rose), Allen Lane, 1969. Penguin, 1970. Love, Power and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences, Polity Press, 1994, ' The Housing Problem, Heinemann, 1983 The Political Economy of Science and The Radicalisation of Science 2 vols (ed. with Steven Rose), Macmillan, 1976 Rights, participation and conflict (pamphlet), Child Poverty Action Group, 1970

Papers

"Eugenics and Genetics: The Conjoint Twins" . New Formations, Vol. 60, pp. 13–26, Winter 2006–2007 "Risk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of the New Genetics" in B. Adams, U. Beck and J. Loon (eds), Risk Theory Revisited, Sage, 2000 "Autogenesis. Open Letter". Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, 2000. pp. 2–22 Red Scientist: Two Strands from a Life in Three Colours (with Steven Rose) in B. Swann and F. Aprahamian (eds), J.D. Bernal: a Life in Science and Politics, Verso, 1999

"Disembodied Knowledge: Making Sense of Biomedical Science" (with Helen Lambert) in A. Irvin and B. Wynne (eds), Misunderstanding Science: The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology, Cambridge University Press, 1996 "Learning from the New Priesthood and the Shrieking Sisterhood: Debating the Life Sciences in Victorian England" in R Hubbard and L Birke (eds), Reinventing Biology, Indiana University Press, 1995 "Mutual Care but Differential Esteem: Caring between older couples" in S. Arber and J. Ginn (eds), Connecting Gender and Ageing: Sociological Approaches to Gender and Later Life, Open University Press, 1995 "Gendered Reflexions on the Laboratory in Medicine" in A. Cunningham and P. Williams (eds), The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1992 "Victorian Values in the Test-Tube: The Politics of Reproduction Science and Technology" in M. Stanworth (ed.), Gender, Motherhood and Medicine, Polity, 1987

"Victorian values in the test-tube: the politics of reproduction science an technology" in Michelle Stanworth (ed) Gender, Motherhood and Medicine, Polity, pp. 151–173, 1987

"Hyper-Reflexivity: a new danger for the counter-movements" in H. Nowotny and H. Rose (eds), Countermovements in the Sciences, Yearbook of the Sociology of Science, Reidel, 1979 "Radical Science and its Enemies" (with Steven Rose) in R. Miliband and J. Saville (eds), The Socialist Register, Merlin Press, 1979

"Women's liberation, reproduction and the technological fix" (with J. Hanmer) in D. Barker and A. Allen (eds), Sexual Divisions and Society: process and change, Tavistock, pp. 199–223 "Bread and Justice: the National Welfare Rights Movement" in P. Leonard (ed) The Sociology of Community Action, Keele University Press, 1975 "The social determinants of reproduction science and technology" in K. Knorr and H. Strasser (eds), Yearbook of the Sociology of Science, Reidel, 1975 "Up against the welfare state: the claimant unions" in R. Miliband and J. Savile (eds), The Socialist Register, Merlin, pp. 179–204, 1973

"The myth of the neutrality of science" (with Steven Rose) in W. Fuller (ed.), The Social Impact of Modern Biology, Routledge Kegan Paul, 1972 "General Practice complaints I and II", New Law Journal, 24 and 31 August, pp. 772–775 and 786–788 "The myth of the neutrality of science" in W. Fuller (ed.), The Social Impact of Modern Biology, Routledge Kegan Paul, pp. 215–224, 1971