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
kevin.lavoie@tsc.ulaval.ca

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

  • Book

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

    Presses de l’Université du Québec (2018)
  • Book chapter

    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)
  • Scientific paper

    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)
  • Scientific paper

    A Child Wanted by Two, Conceived by Several: Lesbian-Parent Families Negotiating Procreation with a Known Donor

    Journal of GLBT Family Studies (2018)
  • Magazine

    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)
  • Brief

    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

  • Fact sheet

    Children’s narratives on the constellation of their family: family ties and relationships in families with lesbian parents and a know donor

    Isabel Côté, Renée-Pier Trottier-Cyr and Kévin Lavoie, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) [2017]
  • Fact sheet

    The trajectories of families with lesbian parents who used a known donor: how does the relationship between the donor and the children change over time?

    Isabel Côté and Kévin Lavoie, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) [2017]
  • Fact sheet

    Parental trajectories in gay couples who had a child with the help of a surrogate: results of a Quebec study

    Isabel Côté, François Sallafranque-St-Louis and Kévin Lavoie, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) [2015]
  • Fact sheet

    Two mothers, one door, and children: a redistribution of family roles?

    Isabel Côté and Kévin Lavoie, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) [2013]