Elise Roche

Elise Roche is a Professor of Spatial Planning and Urban Planning at the Lyon Urban Planning Institute (IUL) within Université Lumière Lyon 2. She holds a PhD in Geography (2010) and a Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (2020). Her work focuses on urban policies, migration, housing discrimination, and spatial justice, particularly studying slum clearance, Roma communities, and marginalized urban populations. She has led projects like the ANR Thermapolis study on public bath infrastructure and contributed to initiatives addressing migrant housing and urban mobilizations.

• Education:
  • PhD in Geography, EHESS (2010)
  • Habilitation, Université Lyon 2 (2020)
• Research Themes:
  • Urban marginalization and discrimination
  • Slum rehousing policies
  • Migration and urban space
  • Spatial justice and mobilizations

Her recent publications analyze spatial justice in urban struggles and the socio-spatial dynamics of informal housing. She leads the Master 1 Urbanisme et Aménagement program at IUL and supervises doctoral research on themes like self-generated housing in São Paulo. She collaborates with institutions like the Triangle laboratory and the ANR Thermapolis project.

Her work bridges critical urban studies with policy analysis, emphasizing historical and geographical perspectives on exclusionary urban practices. She actively participates in public debates through media appearances and policy discussions on migrant integration and urban marginality.