Hilary Rose (sociologist)

Hilary Ann Rose (born 1935) During the 1939- 45 war she was evacuated from south London with her mother and brother. In 1940, the year of Dunkirk, they along with many other London School children were sent to Weymouth (a curious location, given that it was opposite of the French coast). With the defeat of France and her army, many of the soldiers were evacuated to Weymouth. Soldiers slept on the pavements and in the requisitioned schools. This, together with watching dog fights in the sky, were part of her everyday life. After attending 9 primary schools in different parts of the country, she was sent to a small grammar school in Suffolk. In 1946, the eleven plus took her to an elite girls school where she didn't fit in and became alienated from both school and study(1).

Hilary 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 the Advanced Study of the Social Science. 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.

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