Université de Montréal

Faculty Member, Sociology

Associate Professor

About

In 2003, Eric Lacourse began his position as assistant professor in the Department of Sociology of University of Montreal and as a researcher at GRIP (Research unit on children's psychosocial maladjustment) and at CHU Ste-Justine. With a PhD in Educational Psychology and postdoctoral training in longitudinal analysis with Daniel Nagin at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, he was hired to develop teaching and research in quantitative methods and social statistics with a specialization in structural equation and multilevel models. In 2003, he was honoured with a distinction from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR), which allowed him to work with the New Investigator Network (NIN). In 2007, The Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development (CEECD) has named his article in Archives of General Psychiatry the best piece of writing by a Canadian researcher. He was also designated by the same organization as one of the ten most promising young Canadian researchers. The same year, he was granted a Junior 1 (Health and Society) four years’ career grant by the Fonds de Recherche sur la Santé du Québec (FRSQ).
His research contribution has three main focal points. The first is to better identify the interactions among individual (temperament and personality), socialization (parents and peers) and contextual (bad neighbourhoods) factors associated with the development of youth psychopathology and antisocial behaviour. The second focal point of his research looks at the prevention and medicalization of behavioural problems during childhood, while the third point focuses on the methodological development of analytical and measurement models for longitudinal data.

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