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.

  • From Silence to Vision: a Photovoice Study to Support Resilience in Parents Affected by Prolific Online Sperm Donors 

  • Intergenerational Ties Through the Lens of Third-Party Reproduction

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

Recent posts

  • Let’s talk about infertility: a series about avoiding microaggressions

    COMMUNICATION Research Team & Centre ESPER (2026)
  • Pandémie et adolescence : stratégies d’adaptation des jeunes Québécois

    Adolescents dans le monde face à la pandémie, p. 31-50, Presses universitaires de Rennes (2026)
  • Congratulations to Marie-Rose Lépine, recipient of the Best psychosocial paper award at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the CFAS

    The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society was held in Calgary from September 17 to 19, 2026.
  • « Gayby-boom » : comment devenir papa quand on n’est pas hétéro

    Catherine Foisy dans Club Sexu (2026)
  • Épisode 01 – Faire famille autrement

    Ça s’apprend (2026)
  • 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)

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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