2018 Continuing Contribution Award

Rose's research and teaching interests are in regional economics, rural development and the role of public policy. Although most of her rural development work focuses on North America she has also worked with other international collaborators in Australia, Chile, Peru and the Netherlands.

Her research and publications focus on the spatial location and re-location of economic activity, including their determinants and impacts. She has published on off-farm employment, occupational segregation, urbanization trends and rural community evolution, cities as engines of growth, location choices of professionals, State Trading Enterprise impacts on International trade, co-ops and credit unions, the changing role of distance, migration patterns, equalization payments and commuting patterns and their determinants.

Her most recent research was focused on the distinction between people-based and place-based public policy and the conditions under which place-based policy may be appropriate. Within the province she is perhaps best known for her work with co-author Jack Stabler on the continuing evolution of Saskatchewan rural and urban communities.