List of Contributors

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 48, 1 January 2016, Page 4

List of Contributors

SIMON CHAPPLE Simon Chappie is a Senior Research Fellow in the Dunedin Multi-disciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Dr Chappie has held senior economist and public policy roles in New Zealand and abroad, spanning the Department of Labour, Ministry of Social Development, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

RACHEL ESSON Rachel Esson is Associate Chief Librarian Research Collections at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

GERRI KIMBER Gerri Kimber, Research Fellow at the University of Northampton, is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. She is the deviser and series editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-16). She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015) and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008), as well as numerous edited collections and journal articles.

RUTH LIGHTBOURNE Ruth Lightbourne is a former Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing, at the Alexander Turnbull Library. She retired in 2015 after 10 years working with this fascinating collection. She has a PhD in Musicology, and prior to moving into the world of rare books, wrote and researched in this area. Since then, the Turnbull rare book collection and the burgeoning worldwide interest in book history have fully occupied her research time, resulting in articles published in New Zealand and the UK.

DOUG MUNRO Doug Munro is a Wellington-based biographer and historian, and the recipient of the 2013 Friends of the Turnbull Library Research Award to write a history of the New Zealand Opera Company (1954 1971). He is also an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Queensland. His latest book is J. C. Beaglehole: Public Intellectual, Critical Conscience (Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2012).

SIMON NATHAN Simon Nathan is a geologist and science historian, with a fascination for the rocks and people of the West Coast. Much of his career has been at GNS Science (where he is now an emeritus scientist), and he has also been science editor for Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. In 2010 he prepared Through the Eyes of a Miner: The Photography of Joseph Divis (published by Steele Roberts), and his biography of James Hector was published in 2015.