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 chapter

    Resigning oneself to resort another woman to have a child: procreative trajectories of Canadian women who became mothers through egg donation or surrogacy

    In Pursuit of Parenthood: Infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology, and Surrogacy, pp. 195-213, Emerald Publishing Limited (2026)
  • Scientific paper

    A Portrait of LGBTQ+ Parents in Quebec: Sociodemographic Profile and Pathways to Parenthood

    LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2026)
  • Book chapter

    Les participations des jeunes en recherche : un processus relationnel, dynamique et réflexif au cœur de la reconnaissance de leurs droits et de leur contribution à la transformation de la société

    La participation des enfants et des adolescents en recherche : la co-construction au cœur de pratiques novatrices, p. 1-13, Presses de l’Université Laval (2026)
  • Scientific paper

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

    Sociology of Health and Illness (2026)
  • Book chapter

    Préserver ou non sa fertilité? Un outil de soutien à la prise de décision à l’intention des jeunes trans et non binaires

    Le passage à la vie adulte des jeunes LGBTQ+ : perspectives intersectionnelles, p. 213-240, Presses de l’Université du Québec (2025)
  • Scientific paper

    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)

Projects

  • 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

  • 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]