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, Joep Cornelissen is a professor of corporate communication and management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He received his PhD from the Manchester Metropolitan University. He has interests in sensemaking, communication, qualitative research, and theory development

, Rowena Viney is a lecturer in medical education at University College London Medical School. Her background is in sociolinguistics, and her research interests include conversation analysis, multimodal interaction