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

Noémie Allard-Gaudreau holds a PhD in Letters and Social Communication from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (2017–2022), awarded with distinction (“exceptional”) and recipient of the UQTR 2022 Best Thesis Award in Social Sciences and Humanities. She also received the ADÉSAQ Excellence Award in Social Sciences, Arts, and Letters. Previously, she completed a Master’s degree in Letters and Social Communication (2015–2017), with distinction (“excellent”), and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication (2011–2014) from the same institution.

Currently, Noémie Allard-Gaudreau is pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship in Criminology at Université Laval (2024–2025), supported by a Faculty of Social Sciences scholarship and additional funding from the CICC. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychology at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (2022–2024), funded by SSHRC and FRQSC.

She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC) at Université de Montréal and a founding member and regular researcher at the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire de linguistique légale (GRILL). Additionally, she has been affiliated with the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur le français en usage au Québec (CRIFUQ) and the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et les agressions sexuelles (CRIPCAS).

Her research lies at the intersection of criminology, social communication, and forensic linguistics, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary issues addressing contemporary social challenges.

Postdoctoral Research Topic
Interrogation Interviews with Suspects of Child Sexual Offenses: A Discursive Analysis of the Credibility of Provided Information

Research Themes

• Forensic linguistics
• Child sexual abuse and delayed disclosure
• Interactional contexts of sexual offenses
• Discursive cues of deception in investigative interviews

Recent Publications

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Laforest, M., & Cyr, M. (in press). “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. De Gruyter

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Deslauriers-Varin, N., Paquette, S., & Fortin, F. (under review). A linguistic analysis of deception in the discourse of cyber-sex offenders. Discourse Studies, 2.

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

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., & Cyr, M. (2024). A better understanding of the interactional context of child sexual abuse through the reported speech of victims 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 being coerced into performing 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 during investigative interviews: The role of antecedent ellipsis in anaphora. In N. Garric, J. Longhi, F. Pugnière-Saavedra, & V. Rochaix (Eds.), Discourses on Sensitive Fields: Collection, Analysis, Intervention (pp. 121–133). Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté.

• Allard-Gaudreau, N., Laforest, M., & Cyr, M. (2021). The modalities of non-disclosure in the narratives of child victims of sexual assault: A study of narrative ellipsis. Travaux Neuchâtelois de Linguistique, 75(1), 1-19.