1. Nikolas Rose is Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences, in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London.
Nikolas Rose was the co-founder and co-director of King's ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health.
Nikolas Rose was previously Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was Head of the Department of Sociology, Pro-Warden for Research and Head of the Goldsmiths Centre for Urban and Community Research and Director of a major evaluation of urban regeneration in South East London.
Nikolas Rose is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters.
Nikolas Rose holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex, England, and Aarhus University, Denmark.
Originally trained as a biologist, Nikolas Rose has done extensive research on the history and sociology of psychiatry, on mental health policy and risk, and on the social implications of recent developments in psychopharmacology.
Nikolas Rose has published widely on the genealogy of subjectivity, on the history of empirical thought in sociology, and on changing rationalities of political power.
Nikolas Rose is particularly known for his development of the work of the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault for the analysis of the politics of our present, and stimulating the revival of studies of governmentality in the Anglo-American world.
Nikolas Rose has long advocated for 'revitalizing' the social and human sciences through a 'critical friendship' with the life sciences, setting out the nature and implications of his 'cartography of the present' in a number of widely cited papers and in The Politics of Life Itself, published in 2007.
Nikolas Rose has led many international collaborative research projects, including BIONET, a major collaboration of European and Chinese researchers on the ethical governance of biomedical research in China.
Nikolas Rose is the Chair of the Neuroscience and Society Network, an international network to encourage critical collaboration between social scientists and neuroscientists, which was funded for several years by the European Science Foundation.
Nikolas Rose was previously a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics where he was a member of the council's Working Party on Medical profiling and online medicine: the ethics of 'personalised healthcare' in a consumer age and on Novel Neurotechnologies: intervening in the human brain.
Nikolas Rose served for several years as a member of the Royal Society's Science Policy Committee.
Nikolas Rose was co-director of the first publicly funded UK centre dedicated to synthetic biology based at Imperial College.
Nikolas Rose's work has been translated into many languages including Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, French, Hungarian, Korean, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Romanian, Portuguese and Spanish.