Julie Whelan

Seven years after the original Making It Work study, we partnered with Work in Culture to deliver an updated profile of Ontario’s cultural workforce. The report explores the realities of building a sustainable cultural career today while identifying practical pathways to strengthen the sector for the future.

We led a mixed-methods study examining how Ontario’s creative industries are adopting generative AI for business operations and administration. Through a sector-wide survey, industry focus group, and literature review, the research identified current use cases, barriers, policy and training gaps, and opportunities to support responsible AI adoption across the sector.

This report explores dance sector dynamics, gaps, challenges, and needs around rehearsal spaces, and it makes recommendations to support the sustainability of dance within that context.

Women in Music Canada engaged Nordicity to develop an Action Plan Framework to address the underrepresentation of women-identifying, non binary, gender fluid and gender diverse people in Ontario’s music sector.

The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) engaged Nordicity to quantify and qualify COVID-19’s Impact on Ontario’s Women/Womxn-led Digital Media Businesses.

Nordicity was commissioned by the Canadian Film Centre to develop a study of Ontario’s women entrepreneurs in digital media as they navigated the unprecedented disruption wrought by COVID-19.