Sabrina Zeghiche

Sabrina Zeghiche (she/her) is a professor in the department of social work at Université du Québec en Outaouais. Her research interests are focused on issues related to transition to parenthood, more specifically, on perinatal loss and bereavement as well as donor conception. For her doctoral dissertation, she examined the ways that bereaved mothers experience the (lack of) social recognition of perinatal loss. Her postdoctoral research examined the family ties that are built in the context of donor conception. Sabrina also leads the DRIFTS project as part of the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties research program. DRIFTS is an Insight Development program about two types of abuse in assisted reproduction: overuse and substitution of sperm donations. Using the life course approach, this project aims to examine the event of the discovery of such abuses and the nature of the transitions this leads to in donor-conceived’s life trajectories. She is also leading a project to create a podcast series titled Born of a Fraud, which received financial support from the SSHRC Connection program. The series aims to document the underlying issues of insemination fraud through testimonials from those concerned and experts (jurists, lawyers, psychologists, sociologists, bioethicists, doctors, etc.).