During her studies, she was part of the Department of Geography's South East Asian field school along the Mekong Delta, and in her final year she went on exchange to Cornell University in upstate New York.
[9] Rose was elected Environment Officer of the Students Representative Council and was spokesperson for the organisation Sustainability at Sydney University.
At the end of 2005 Rose was selected to attend the United Nations Kyoto Protocol climate change negotiations in Montreal.
Power Shift, Australia's first youth climate summit, brought together 1500 of the AYCC's most active members together at the University of Western Sydney for three days of training and workshops in campaigning and grassroots organising.
In December 2009, Rose helped lead a delegation of young Australians and Pacific islanders to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.
[20] In 2012, Melbourne University Press published Rose's book Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic.
The book received favourable reviews by authors Bill McKibben and Peter FitzSimons, scientists Tim Flannery and Matthew England, former leader of the Liberal Party John Hewson, CEO of World Vision Australia Tim Costello, and lead singer of the Australian band Blue King Brown, Natalie Pa'apa'a.