{"id":50382,"date":"2018-10-01T17:10:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=50382"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:32:08","slug":"luciara-nardon-steering-the-creww-ship","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/luciara-nardon-steering-the-creww-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Luciara Nardon: Steering the CREWW Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Luciara Nardon: Steering the CREWW Ship\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Thinking globally and building mutually supportive connections come naturally to Luciara Nardon, and she\u2019s bringing those strengths to her new role as director of Carleton\u2019s Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work<\/a> (CREWW).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nardon, an associate professor of international business at the Sprott School of Business<\/a> whose research interests include multicultural workplaces and global leadership, is thinking big about building the centre\u2019s research presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we look at growing research at CREWW, collaboration is a big piece of that,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re already a regional hub for research on women and work, and creating connections with other researchers and other centres across Canada, and eventually internationally as well, is our next step. I\u2019ve started talking to people and we\u2019re exploring partnerships that will allow work that has a much broader reach and impact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Nardon and her book, Working in a Multicultural World.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Soon after Nardon\u2019s start in July, CREWW announced a new graduate bursary award providing up to $15,000 to graduate students studying women in management at Sprott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to support grad students and build a community of students who are actively involved in the centre,\u201d says Nardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bursary award helps fill out CREWW\u2019s suite of monetary research supports. As well as helping fund major, multi-year research projects, CREWW offers incubator grants for researchers in the early stages of a project. Recipients present their work at an annual Women and Work Research Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Supporting Research With More Than Funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But CREWW doesn\u2019t just fund research: it provides support to researchers in other ways too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is the popular writing retreat offered twice yearly for women researchers. Small groups gather for five days to focus on their work with minimal distractions. The setting is tranquil and the company supportive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can share what you are working on and any challenges,\u201d Nardon enthuses. \u201cIt can be a fantastic boost for your creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s also developing a \u201cfriendly peer review group\u201d in which participants receive feedback on academic papers before submitting them to journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGetting published is such a competitive process. The more feedback you get prior to submission, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new digital presence will energize the centre\u2019s distance education component.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Building a New Digital Presence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter trying different approaches, we\u2019re creating a series of monthly videos and podcasts that, because they will be freely available on the CREWW website, will help us connect with a much wider audience,\u201d Nardon reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nardon is proud of the value CREWW adds to Carleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe create a multidisciplinary space within the university for researchers who are interested in different issues relating to women and work to come together and spark new and different ideas and collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the process,\u201d she adds, \u201cwe also offer an important expertise on gender and work that can be leveraged in different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For women at Carleton and in the community seeking to develop leadership and strategic planning skills, the centre currently offers two programs twice a year – the five-day Advancing Women in Leadership and two-day Thinking Like a Futurist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re always evaluating our programs to ensure they\u2019re relevant. As workplaces evolve, the centre does too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nardon identifies recent demographic shifts and changes in mobility as major new influences on workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn increased number of immigrants, refugees and women of different cultures creates new situations that require new ways of thinking and communicating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, when it comes to change at CREWW, Nardon is proceeding with care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCREWW has been doing many things very well,\u201d she says, \u201cand it\u2019s going to continue to do those things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thinking globally and building mutually supportive connections come naturally to Luciara Nardon, and she\u2019s bringing those strengths to her new role as director of Carleton\u2019s Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work (CREWW). Nardon, an associate professor of international business at the Sprott School of Business whose research interests include multicultural workplaces and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":9395,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[28,1931],"cu_story_tag":[1930,1922],"class_list":["post-50382","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-community-partnerships","cu_story_type-social-innovation","cu_story_tag-equity-diversity-and-inclusion","cu_story_tag-sprott-school-of-business"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/50382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/50382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97707,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/50382\/revisions\/97707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=50382"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=50382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}