Damaris Rose is an Honorary Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS). She retired from her Full Professor position in urban studies at the Urbanisation Culture Société research center of the INRS in 2017. She is an urban social geographer specializing in housing and neighborhood change, including their gendered dimensions, in cities of the Global North.
Dr. Rose was involved for more than 15 years in the Montreal center and national network of the Metropolis Project on immigration and integration in cities, where she led and contributed to studies on immigrant and refugee housing issues. She is on the executive committee of the Building Migrant Resilience in Cities research partnership, a project of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and is co-researcher in a study of the settlement experiences of asylum seekers in Quebec who crossed the border irregularly in 2017–18.
She obtained her PhD from the University of Sussex and her MA from the University of Toronto.