[1] Previously, she taught and served as Associate Dean at The Open University.
Before joining the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford in 2017, she previously taught and served as Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University and was also Head of the Geography Department there for four years.
Rose's current research interests lie broadly within the field of visual culture.
In recent years, she has written three books that have proven less controversial: Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Materials (2001), Deterritorialisations: Revisioning Landscape and Politics (2003), and Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, The Public and The Politics of Sentiment (Ashgate, 2012).
[3] In 2015, she was elected a fellow of the British Academy[4] and, the same year, was also named an Andrew W Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Pretoria, as well.