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Stephanie Lloyd is a Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval's Faculty of Social Sciences. She is affiliated with the Cervo research center, the McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS), the Centre Nutrition, santé et société (NUTRISS), and the Institut sur la nutrition et les aliments fonctionnels (INAF).
Her research spans medical anthropology, biosocial studies, and critical disability frameworks through two primary axes. The first investigates neuroepigenetics and suicide risk, analyzing how childhood adversity impacts suicide through social environment integration and temporal models. This work critically compares scientific risk frameworks with lived experiences of suicidal individuals and bereaved families. The second axis reimagines cochlear implant research by centering deaf people's experiential knowledge to develop critical biosocial understandings of sensory technologies. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges anthropology of psychiatry, science and technology studies, and disability justice perspectives.
Recent publications (2020-2025) reveal consistent thematic evolution across suicide research and neurotechnology studies. Her work progressively integrates epigenetic reversibility concepts with trauma narratives while challenging biomedical paradigms in deafness research. Key trends include diffractive methodologies for Global South trauma contexts, critiques of bionic metaphors in implant technologies, and reconceptualizing life trajectories through homeorhesis frameworks. This output demonstrates rigorous interdisciplinary synthesis where molecular neuroscience intersects with lived experience narratives.
Lloyd actively collaborates with the McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS), a leading international suicide prevention research consortium. She also contributes to NUTRISS and INAF centers, which investigate nutrition-mental health connections and functional foods. These affiliations enable her biosocial research to bridge laboratory science with community-centered health interventions through institutional partnerships in Quebec's neuroscience ecosystem.
