Lorraine completed her Master鈥檚 degree in Sociology at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (UQAM) in 2007听; her research focused on the difficulties faced by individuals raised or born into insular religious community to integrate into mainstream society. Due to the innovative aspect of her research project, she won the Prize for the Best Master鈥檚 Research Project of the Sociology Department鈥� at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al. In 2013 she completed her Ph.D. in Contemporary Religion at the Universit茅 de Sherbrooke (Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship, SSHRC). In her PhD she focused her research on the challenges faced by youth protection agencies and police when intervening into child protection cases involving听children from closed and totalitarian religious environments. She has produced a model of intervention for professionals working in closed and totalitarian religious environments. She is one of the first in North America to have looked at this topic. Lorraine won the Best Thesis Award of the Humanities and Social Sciences 鈥╫f the Universit茅 de Sherbrooke.
During her studies, she was involved in several research initiatives as a research agent in Funded Research Centres. As a member of the CRCF, with the Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 du Qu茅bec (2018), she has published听 an intervention guide targeting children who are potentially at risk in closed sects: .
Lorraine Derocher is also very actively involved in the community. Aside from giving lectures to conferences, she currently provides training to professionals and gives public talks. She also wrote a mainstream book: Ces enfants oubli茅s 鈥擥randir dans une communaut茅 sectaire (2022; 脡ditions de l鈥橦omme) where she relates stories of those children, aiming that the readers will learn from their experience. She is currently working as a non-tenure professor at the Centre d鈥櫭﹖udes du religieux contemporain of the Universit茅 de Sherbrooke
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