Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties

Discover our current projects

Learn more about current projects at the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties.

  • Project in recruitment process

    Intergenerational Ties Through the Lens of Third-Party Reproduction

  • Contact: the experiences of gamete donors contacted by their donor offspring

  • Drifts in Donor Conception and Their Impacts on Life Trajectories

Recent posts

  • Constrained Choices: Navigating Agency and Social Structures in Sperm Donor Selection

    Sociology of Health and Illness (2026)
  • Using online platforms to offer or seek sperm donation: A systematised narrative review of donor and recipient experiences

    Human Fertility (2025)
  • Procréation assistée par autrui et fragmentation de la maternité : le piège du récit unique

    Canadian Journal of Family Law / Revue canadienne de droit familial (2025)
  • Some Ethical and Methodological Issues in Research Involving Culturally Diverse Children

    Research with Refugee Children and Families: Ethical Dilemmas and Methodological Insights, pp. 98-128, UBC Press (2025)
  • OK – Online sperm donation: information and harm reduction videos

    Four harm reduction videos by the Chair about the practice of online sperm donation
  • OK – Another way to conceive : the Access project video series

    LGBT+ Family Coalition, Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Jeunes, familles et réponses sociales (JEFAR) Research Center (2025)
  • Team Meeting and Field Notes as Sources for Reflecting on the Challenges of Engaging Children as Research Partners

    Qualitative Fieldwork with Children: Context and Participation in Child Well-Being Research across Nations, pp. 207-223, Bristol University Press (2025)
  • Accès à la procréation médicalement assistée (PMA) pour les personnes LGBTQ+ : réalités, obstacles et éléments facilitants

    Coalition des familles LGBT+, Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la procréation pour autrui et les liens familiaux, Centre de recherche Jeunes, familles et réponses sociales (JEFAR) [2025]
  • OK – Ensuring Equitable Access to Assisted Reproduction for LGBTQ+ Individuals: An Inclusive Practice Guide for Fertility Clinics

    Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, LGBT+ Family Coalition, Jeunes, Familles et Réponses Sociales (JEFAR) Research Center [2025]

Chairholder

Isabel Côté (elle/she) is the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties Chairholder. She is a professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Quebec in Outaouais. Her research focuses on parental projects that involve the contribution of a third party, more specifically a gamete or embryo donor or a surrogate mother.

The Chair thanks the following institutions for their financial contribution

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