Returning to London in 1945, she was admitted to an elite girls' day school, but its snobbery and authoritarianism alienated her.
[citation needed] Together with neuroscientist Steven Rose, to whom she is married,[7][1] she gave a three-year lecture series on "Genetics and Society" as joint Professors of Physics at Gresham College, London.
One of the products of this collaboration was the edited book Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology, published in 2000.
[8][9] Her most recent books, with Steven Rose, are Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology (Verso, 2012) and Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds?
She was a founder member of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science in the 1960s, and more recently has been instrumental in calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions for as long as Israel continues its occupation of the Palestinian Territories, on the grounds of Israeli academics' close relationship with the IDF.
[11] In 2004, Hilary Rose was one of the founding members of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, a key part of the academic boycott movement.