Rose works as a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University on several courses including Fashion Communication and Promotion and Creative Direction and Curation for Fashion, specialising in fashion and art history, contextual studies and semiotics. She has previously worked in further education teaching across myriad creative disciplines. Rose has created art writing for Backlit in the past and continues to develop her research in arts exhibitions, galleries and museums. She has an interest in local history, myth and folklore and how these subjects intersect with aesthetic expression.