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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– CONTRIBUTORS –––––––––– xviiJo Silvester is Professor of Occupational Psychology and Director of the OccupationalPsychology Research Group at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She holds degreesfrom the Universities of London, York and Leeds and has lectured at the University of Leeds,the University of Wales Swansea, and City University London. Her main research interestsconcern how we judge competence in others – particularly in relation to employee selectionand assessment – and the influence of stereotyping, culture and diversity. Her current workincludes ESRC sponsored research into leadership and diversity in investment banking, andthe psychological determinants of empathy in general practitioners. In addition, recent workhas centred on developing fair selection procedures for parliamentary candidates; a projectaimed at increasing the number of women and ethnic minorities who become MPs. Jo haspublished widely in the field of employee selection and assessment. She is an associate editorfor the International Journal of Selection and Assessment and the Journal of Occupational andOrganizational Psychology.Chris Steyaert is Professor of Organizational Psychology at the University of St Gallen. Afterreceiving his doctoral dissertation in Psychology from the Catholic University, Leuven(Belgium), he was attached to the Institute of Organization and Industrial Sociology,Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and to the Entrepreneurship and Small BusinessResearch Institute (ESBRI), Stockholm, Sweden. He has published in international journalsand books in the area of entrepreneurship and organizational innovation. His research themesinclude organizing creativity, diversity management and difference, language and translation,forms of performing/writing research and the politics of entrepreneurship and humanorganization.David Stiles is a Lecturer in Strategy and Marketing at Cardiff Business School, CardiffUniversity, having completed a BSc in Bath University and an MBA and PhD at Cardiff. Hepreviously worked as a strategist, economist and marketer in financial services and economicdevelopment. His research and consultancy work centres on strategy making andimplementation in the private and public sectors. Major recent publications involve strategyin higher education and the police, joint ventures and culture in developing countries, andorganizational image and identity. This includes the development and application of newmethodologies in pictorial representation.Gillian Symon is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Psychology in the Department ofOrganizational Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London. Her main researchinterests lie in the areas of technological change at work and research practice. She andCatherine Cassell have collaborated over many years in producing articles, book chapters andconference papers that challenge traditional research practices in their discipline and seek toencourage both reflexivity in research and the use of innovative research methods.Paul Thompson is Research Professor in Sociology at the University of Essex. He is authorof many books using the life story/oral method, including The Voice of the Past, The Edwardians,Living the Fishing, I Don’t Feel Old, and Growing Up in Stepfamilies. He is Founding Editor ofOral History. He was founding director of Qualidata and he is Founder of the National LifeStory Collection at the British Library National Sound Archive.