Noémie Allard-Gaudreau (July 1, 2024, to March 30, 2025.)

Noémie Allard-Gaudreau completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Criminology at Université Laval (2024–2025), supported by a Faculty of Social Sciences fellowship and additional funding from the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (CICC). She also held a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychology at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (2022–2024), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC). She is currently beginning a new postdoctoral fellowship in Public Safety at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Social Communication from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (2017–2022), awarded with distinction (“exceptional”) and recipient of the Best Dissertation Prize in Social Sciences and Humanities (2022). She was also awarded the ADÉSAQ Excellence Prize in Social Sciences and Humanities, Arts and Letters. Prior to her doctoral studies, she completed an M.A. (2015–2017, “excellent”) and a B.A. (2011–2014) in Social Communication at the same institution.

Postdoctoral research project:
Cross-perspectives on the main psychological health challenges of investigators specialized in the interviewing of child victims of physical and sexual abuse.

Research themes

• Discursive manifestations of deception in suspect interviews

• Resistance strategies of suspects in providing requested information

• Witness credibility assessment

• Reluctance of children to disclose abuse during investigative interviews

• Narrative accounts of traumatic events in legal contexts

• Risk factors associated with delayed disclosure of child sexual abuse

Recent publications

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Gauvin, É., Paquette, S., Fortin, F. & Deslauriers-Varin, N. (revise & resubmit). Does investigators’ questions impact suspects’ likelihood to lie? A forensic linguistics approach to verbal cues of deception. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling.

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Laforest, M., & Cyr, M. (2025). “‘He makes me, he tells me, ‘Do it or you won’t have your cellphone’”: An analysis of reported speech in the narratives of child victims of sexual abuse.” In V. Guilén-Nieto & D. A. Stein (Eds.), Manual of Romance Forensic Linguistics (pp. 203–224). De Gruyter.

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Deslauriers-Varin, N., Paquette, S. & Fortin, F. (2025). A linguistic analysis of deception in the discourse of cyber-sex offenders. Discourse Studies, 27(5), 1–22.

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Plante-Hébert, J. & Fortin, F. (2024). Forensic linguistics: An innovative contribution to traditional forensic sciences. Criminologie, Forensique et Sécurité, 2(2), 5095.

• Allard-Gaudreau, N. & Cyr, M. (2024). Understanding the interactional context of child sexual assaults through victims’ reported speech during investigative interviews. Criminologie, Forensique et Sécurité, 2(2), 4631.

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Poirier, S. & Cyr, M. (2024). Factors associated with delayed disclosure of child sexual abuse: A focus on the victim’s having been led to perform sexual acts on the perpetrator. Child Abuse & Neglect, 147, 106537.

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Laforest, M. & Cyr, M. (2023). Children’s reluctance to disclose sexual abuse in investigative interviews: The role of antecedent ellipsis in anaphoric reference. In N. Garric, J. Longhi, F. Pugnière-Saavedra & V. Rochaix (Eds.), Les discours des terrains sensibles: recueil, analyse, intervention (pp. 121–133). Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté.

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Laforest, M. & Cyr, M. (2021). Narrative ellipsis as a modality of non-disclosure in children’s accounts of sexual abuse. Travaux Neuchâtelois de linguistique, 75(1), 1–19.