{"id":1495,"date":"2024-07-12T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:19:01","slug":"announcement-mason-ducharme-as-the-new-national-community-research-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/2024\/announcement-mason-ducharme-as-the-new-national-community-research-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement: Mason Ducharme as the New National Community Research Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Announcement: Mason Ducharme as the New National Community Research Director\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Announcement: Mason Ducharme as the New National Community Research Director<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On behalf of the Project Management team, I\u2019m delighted to announce that Mason Ducharme was recently promoted to the position of National Community Research Director for RFNG, from his role as an Inherent Rights Fellow. In this leadership position, Mason ensures that partner community research requirements are met with the necessary expertise and resources. He also assists Inherent Rights Fellows, Research Assistants, and First Nation community members in documenting and sharing their stories, learnings, and teachings to support other First Nations in their transition to self-government. In addition to this part-time role with RFNG, Mason also currently serves as Co-Executive Director of the Centre for First Nations Governance. His appointment to both roles reflects RFNG\u2019s deep commitment to the development and promotion of young scholars and leaders in self-government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mason replaces Darcy Gray who recently took on new challenges. We are very grateful for the contributions that Darcy has made, and will continue to make to RFNG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mason\u2019s heritage is deeply rooted in his family. His father, Cedric Jones, is from the Lil\u2019wat Nation, and his mother, Allison Ducharme, is from the Samahquam Nation. Proud of his lineage from both Nations, Mason always acknowledges his citizenship to each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mason holds a Bachelor\u2019s in Business Administration from Capilano University, a Master\u2019s in Public Administration from the University of Victoria, and is nearing the completion of his PhD in Public Administration at the same institution. His PhD dissertation focuses on the retention of Indigenous executives in Indigenous organizations, a topic inspired by his professional experience. Mason is a recipient of the prestigious Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral for his dissertation work. Additionally, he is a proud alumnus of the Harvard Business School\u2019s Leading People and Investing to Build Sustainable Communities certificate program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With over five years of experience as an Indigenous executive in Indigenous organizations, Mason has held multiple research roles. From March 2021 to September 2023, he served as a research assistant, followed by his tenure as an Inherent Rights Fellow from October 2023 to July 2024 with the RFNG project. Beyond RFNG, he was the Research Advisor at the First Nations Public Service Secretariat (FNPSS) from November 2022 to July 2023, where he led a significant research project on the underfunding of First Nations governance. Mason also has experience as a sessional instructor, teaching Indigenous Values in Business and Human Resources Management at Vancouver Island University, and Indigenous Governance in Canada at the University of Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mason\u2019s scholarly contributions include the following publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Ducharme, M., Thiessen, S., Lindquist, E. (Forthcoming). \u201cMaking Indigenous Self-Government Happen in Canada\u201d in Positive Public Administration: New Directions for Theory and Practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Ducharme, M. (Forthcoming). \u201cThe Retention of Indigenous Executives in Indigenous Organizations\u201d in Research in HRM On Native American Persons’ Work Issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Ducharme, M., Nye, L., Yakura, P., Corrie, S., Macdonald, C., Ford, J. (2023). \u201cHow to Support Core Governance Needs of British Columbia First Nations: Analysis and Recommendations\u201d for First Nations Public Service Secretariat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His panel presentations include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– \u201cLanguage and Lawmaking\u201d at the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium Conference, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– \u201cWhat do First Nations Government leaders and administrators need from public administrators to support positive interactions with their Nations and organizations?\u201d at the CAPPA\/ACPAP Conference, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mason\u2019s conference presentations include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– \u201cThe Retention of Indigenous Executives in Indigenous Organizations\u201d at the BC AFOA\u2019s Indigenous Governance & HR Conference, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Announcement: Mason Ducharme as the New National Community Research Director On behalf of the Project Management team, I\u2019m delighted to announce that Mason Ducharme was recently promoted to the position of National Community Research Director for RFNG, from his role as an Inherent Rights Fellow. In this leadership position, Mason ensures that partner community research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}