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

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

    Sociology of Health and Illness (2026)
  • 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)
  • Accès à la procréation médicalement assistée (PMA) pour les personnes LGBTQ+ : réalités, obstacles et éléments facilitants

    Coalition des familles LGBT+, Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la procréation pour autrui et les liens familiaux, Centre de recherche Jeunes, familles et réponses sociales (JEFAR) [2025]
  • L’accès aux services de fertilité pour les femmes lesbiennes, bisexuelles ou pansexuelles et les personnes queer, trans ou non-binaires : une revue rapide des écrits scientifiques

    Science infirmière et pratiques en santé (2024)
  • Pourquoi devrais-je adopter mon propre enfant ? Le recours à l’adoption par consentement spécial pour établir la filiation d’un enfant né d’une grossesse pour autrui au Québec

    Enfances, Familles, Générations (2024)
  • ‘Once you open that Pandora’s Box, you cannot close it’: a qualitative study on family relationships following insemination fraud

    Reproductive BioMedicine Online (2023)

Projects

  • My Mother’s Surrogacy

Related contents

  • Participate in the Grandparents Project

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  • 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)