Marie-Rose Lépine (She/Her) is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), under the supervision of Professor Isabel Côté. Her research focuses on reproductive health, with particular interests in perinatal grief, assisted reproduction, and diverse family structures. Her doctoral thesis explores perinatal grief among surrogate mothers. Marie-Rose primarily uses qualitative methods and has a growing interest in psychometrics. She is a research assistant at the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties (https://crcppa.uqo.ca/en), contributing to projects on donor conception fraud and surrogacy. She is also an honorary research assistant at the FINCH Lab at City St-Georges, University of London, where she collaborates with Professor Vasanti Jadva on the development of an inclusive scale to measure prenatal bonding across diverse family structures. Additionally, she is a student member of the Familles en mouvance research partnership at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS – https://partenariat-familles.inrs.ca/membres-etudiants/).
