Kévin Lavoie

Assistant professor in Université Laval’s school of social work and criminology and is the scientific director of the Centre de recherche Jeunes, familles et réponses sociales

Kévin Lavoie (he/him) holds an interdisciplinary doctorate in applied humanities from Université de Montréal. He is an assistant professor in Université Laval’s school of social work and criminology and is the scientific director of the Centre de recherche Jeunes, familles et réponses sociales (JEFAR, the Centre for research on youth, families and social responses). His research and teaching interests sit at the crossroads of family, sexual and gender diversity. His current research work examines the social and relational aspects of assisted reproduction, particularly the relationship to maternity and paternity among those concerned with surrogacy and gamete donation. He is the lead researcher for the PREFER Study and Narratives within families with children conceived via sperm donation project as well as a co-researcher with the DRIFTS project and the Intergenerational Ties Through the Lens of Third-Party Reproduction project, which fall within the programming of the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties.

Publications

  • Tisser une trame relationnelle autour de l’enfant : les affiliations familiales en contexte de gestation pour autrui et de don d’ovules

    Dialogue (2023)
  • De la nécessité de bien accompagner les personnes et les familles concernées par la procréation assistée à l’aide d’un tiers

    Mémoire présenté dans le cadre des consultations particulières et des auditions publiques pour le projet de loi no 12 (2023)
  • Les expériences du droit et de la justice des parents LGBTQ+ séparés

    La séparation parentale et la recomposition familiale dans la société québécoise : les premiers moments, p. 387-406, Presses de l’Université Laval (2023)
  • When Facebook plays matchmaker: Interactions within an online community dedicated to surrogacy and egg donation

    Family Relations (2023)
  • L’adoption et les liens familiaux expliqués par des enfants québécois. Mise en relation de récits d’enfants adoptés et des membres de leur famille adoptive

    Anthropologies et Société (2022)
  • Mères lesbiennes et donneurs connus en France : réfléchir et négocier les relations de parenté

    Ethnologie française (2022)

Projects

  • Project in recruitment process

    Intergenerational Ties Through the Lens of Third-Party Reproduction

  • Drifts in Donor Conception and Their Impacts on Life Trajectories

  • ACCESS to reproduction for LBP women and QTNB people

  • PREFER Study

  • Narratives within families with children conceived via sperm donation

  • STORIES: Self, Transmission, Origins, Representations, and Identity among Donor-Conceived Teenagers and their Families

Related contents

  • Participate in the Grandparents Project

    We are currently looking for participants
  • 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]
  • Psychosocial consultations in fertility clinics: what should I expect as a 2SLGBTQ+ person? (French only)

    ACCESS Research Team & LGBT+ Family Coalition (2025)
  • Medically assisted reproduction: what to expect as a 2SLGBTQ+ person

    ACCESS Research Team & LGBT+ Family Coalition (2025)
  • Naissances du futur

    Savoir média (2025)
  • Multiple parentage and the search for ancestry, in the shadow of family law reform: conference booklet

    Observatoire des réalités familiales du Québec (2025)