Nikolas Rose
Nikolas Rose | |
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| Born | Nikolas Simon Rose 13 April 1947 |
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| Fields | Sociologist |
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Nikolas Simon Rose (born 13 April 1947) is a British sociologist and social theorist. He 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. From January 2012 to until his retirement in April 2021 he was Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (previously Social Science, Health & Medicine) at King's College London, having joined King's to found this new department. He was the co-founder and co-director of King's ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health.
Before moving to King's College London, he was the James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, director and founder of LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society from 2002 to 2011, and Head of the LSE Department of Sociology (2002–2006). He 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. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences, and of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters.