Prof. Lavie has a doctorate in sociology from Tel Aviv University. In recent years she has studied the field of television in Israel, focusing on the question of defining television quality in the fields of reality television production in Israel and television drama. Currently, Prof. Lavie is focusing also on gender inequalities in the family (concentrating on generation Y) and on creative industries labor markets.

Prof.. Lavie has published in leading journals dealing with the seam between media, media, sociology, political economics and art. She recently co-edited a special issue of Poetics titled: Global tastes: the transnational spread of non-Anglo-American culture, with her co-editor Dr. Simone Varriale, from the University of Lincoln, UK.