CSSO Speaker Series: Luciara Nardon

Luciara Nardon

Professor of International Business at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business

Shaping the Conditions of Knowing: Auto-Ethnography, Emergent Knowledge, and Facilitated Sensemaking

Date: Friday, February 20, 2026
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Bronfman building, room 245

Abstract

This talk explores how the conditions surrounding research encounters shape the knowledge that emerges within them. Building on my prior work on reflective and facilitated interviewing (Nardon et al., 2021), I introduce facilitated auto-ethnography as an approach to generate insight from the researcher’s lived experience. I illustrate this process through an ongoing research project on the experiences of independent workers. Drawing on prior multimodal experimentation – including work with metaphors (Nardon & Hari, 2021), AI image generation (Nardon et al., 2025), collages (Valgardsson & Nardon, in progress), and immersive technologies in interviewing (Nardon & Arya, 2025), – I show how these practices help make certain aspects of experience more perceptible and available for inquiry. I will discuss how these approaches support sensemaking and the emergence of knowledge. I reflect on the implications of this approach for qualitative research, including ongoing conversations about researcher involvement, reflexivity, and the use of emerging technologies in research practice.