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Professor Nikolas Rose
Professor Nikolas Rose

Professor Nikolas Rose

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

  • Mental Health
  • Policy
  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry

Contact details

Biography

Professor Nikolas Rose originally trained as a biologist before switching to psychology and then to sociology. In 1992, he joined Goldsmiths College, where he was Head of Sociology and Pro-Warden for Research.

Ten years later, he joined the London School of Economics as a Martin White Professor of Sociology. He was also Head of the Department of Sociology (2002-2006) and the founder and Director of the Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society (BioS).

He joined King's in January 2012 to establish the new Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine, now the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, and was Head of Department from 2012 to 2018. He is Co-Director of the King's Centre for Society and Mental Health.

Research

  • Biological and genetic psychiatry
  • Behavioral neuroscience
  • The social and political history of the human sciences
  • The genealogy of subjectivity
  • The history of empirical thought in sociology, law and criminology
  • the changing rationalities and techniques of political power

For the last decade, Nikolas' work has focused on the conceptual, social and political dimensions of the contemporary life sciences and biomedicine, with a current focus on developments in psychiatry and the social shaping of mental health.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Further details

See Nikolas' research profile

    Research

    Synapse neuron
    Neuroscience & Society Network

    Engaging with the social, political and economic implications of developments in neuroscience.

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    Biotechnology & Society research group

    Addressing the social, ethical and legal questions arising from developments in health and biomedicine using a multidisciplinary research approach.

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    Mental health, migration and the megacity: Urban transformation in China

    Exploring the relationship between rural-urban migration and mental health in global megacities like Shanghai.

    Project status: Completed

    Brain
    Urban Brain Lab

    Understanding the connections between the social and the neurological lives of urban citizens, with particular attention to mental health.

    Project status: Ongoing

    Sao Paulo
    Mental health, migration and the megacity in São Paulo

    Looking at the relationship between mental health and urban transformation since the late nineteenth-century in São Paulo.

    Project status: Completed

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    Social science and Urban public health institute

    Working with collaborators around the theme of urban public health

    News

    Professors Andrew Pickles and Nikolas Rose elected to the British Academy

    Professor Andrew Pickles from the IoPPN’s Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics and Professor Nikolas Rose, of the Department of Global Health &...

    Professors Andrew Pickles and Nikolas Rose elected to the British Academy

    We need to mobilise communities and address the causes of mental ill health in our response to COVID-19

    A shift in focus is needed if the UK government is to adequately respond to mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, say academics from the Centre...

    Banner for 'Stay at home, Save lives' campaign

    UK's first Centre to tackle modern society's impact on mental health

    The UK’s first major UKRI-funded Centre for Society and Mental Health will investigate how rapid changes in modern society impact on our mental health.

    Pedestrians

    The Centre for Society & Mental Health announces exciting new PhD studentships

    King's Centre for Society & Mental Health announces new PhD studentships in three areas.

    man studying

    Events

    23MarLondon

    Centre for Society & Mental Health launch event

    Launch event of the new ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health at King's College London, with a performance by the Soothsayers

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    Mental health and social change in the time of COVID-19

    Efforts to contain and delay the spread of COVID-19 has transformed our social worlds. Yet, we need be wary of rushing to frame them in terms of mental health.

    photo: John Cameron, Unsplash

    Understanding the impacts on society of COVID-19

    How the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is helping us understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    empty stores hero sized

      Research

      Synapse neuron
      Neuroscience & Society Network

      Engaging with the social, political and economic implications of developments in neuroscience.

      scientist-lab-technician-with-glass-slide-with-microscope-brain-bank-v10-thumb
      Biotechnology & Society research group

      Addressing the social, ethical and legal questions arising from developments in health and biomedicine using a multidisciplinary research approach.

      Timelapse city
      Mental health, migration and the megacity: Urban transformation in China

      Exploring the relationship between rural-urban migration and mental health in global megacities like Shanghai.

      Project status: Completed

      Brain
      Urban Brain Lab

      Understanding the connections between the social and the neurological lives of urban citizens, with particular attention to mental health.

      Project status: Ongoing

      Sao Paulo
      Mental health, migration and the megacity in São Paulo

      Looking at the relationship between mental health and urban transformation since the late nineteenth-century in São Paulo.

      Project status: Completed

      suphi-hero-1
      Social science and Urban public health institute

      Working with collaborators around the theme of urban public health

      News

      Professors Andrew Pickles and Nikolas Rose elected to the British Academy

      Professor Andrew Pickles from the IoPPN’s Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics and Professor Nikolas Rose, of the Department of Global Health &...

      Professors Andrew Pickles and Nikolas Rose elected to the British Academy

      We need to mobilise communities and address the causes of mental ill health in our response to COVID-19

      A shift in focus is needed if the UK government is to adequately respond to mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, say academics from the Centre...

      Banner for 'Stay at home, Save lives' campaign

      UK's first Centre to tackle modern society's impact on mental health

      The UK’s first major UKRI-funded Centre for Society and Mental Health will investigate how rapid changes in modern society impact on our mental health.

      Pedestrians

      The Centre for Society & Mental Health announces exciting new PhD studentships

      King's Centre for Society & Mental Health announces new PhD studentships in three areas.

      man studying

      Events

      23MarLondon

      Centre for Society & Mental Health launch event

      Launch event of the new ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health at King's College London, with a performance by the Soothsayers

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      Mental health and social change in the time of COVID-19

      Efforts to contain and delay the spread of COVID-19 has transformed our social worlds. Yet, we need be wary of rushing to frame them in terms of mental health.

      photo: John Cameron, Unsplash

      Understanding the impacts on society of COVID-19

      How the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is helping us understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

      empty stores hero sized