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

  • Perspectives internationales sur la gestation pour autrui : expériences des personnes concernées et contextes d’action

    Presses de l’Université du Québec (2018)
  • Navigating in Murky Waters: Legal Issues Arising from a Lack of Surrogacy Regulation in Quebec

    Surrogacy in Canada: Critical Perspectives in Law and Policy, pp. 81-111, University of Toronto Press (2018)
  • La reconnaissance de l’homoparenté au Québec. Lorsque les stratégies de mobilisation de la communauté rencontrent l’avant-gardisme de l’État

    Revue des politiques sociales et familiales (2018)
  • A Child Wanted by Two, Conceived by Several: Lesbian-Parent Families Negotiating Procreation with a Known Donor

    Journal of GLBT Family Studies (2018)
  • Chéri.e, j’ai facebooké notre donneur : les réseaux socionumériques comme nouvelle filière d’accès à la procréation assistée par autrui.e

    Bulletin de liaison du Partenariat de recherche Familles en mouvance, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (2018)
  • À l’écoute des adultes et des enfants concernés : pour une réforme pragmatique du droit de la famille

    Mémoire déposé à la Commission citoyenne pour la réforme du droit de la famille (2018)

Projects

  • My Mother’s Surrogacy

Related contents

  • Do you know about the barriers affecting access to fertility services for lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, trans and queer women, trans men and nonbinary people?

    ACCESS Research Team & LGBT+ Family Coalition (2024)
  • How is adoption by special consent perceived by individuals involved in a surrogacy agreement?

    COMMUNICATION Research Team (2024) – Infographic from a study by Kévin Lavoie, Isabel Côté and Sophie Doucet
  • Summer Institute on Assisted Reproduction

    The Summer Institute on Assisted Reproduction (June 3-5, 2024) is offering advanced training on contemporary issues in assisted reproductive technologies (ART). This multi-day event is aimed at professionals who work with people involved in ART, as well as researchers and students.
  • 15 youth discuss fertility preservation in words and images

    PREFER Research Team (2024)
  • Une réflexion sur la diversité sexuelle et la pluralité des genres s’est ouverte à l’UQO

    Radio-Canada (2018)
  • The people around me

    Université du Québec en Outaouais (2017)