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Johanna Weststar is an Associate Professor of Labour and Employment Relations in the DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies at Western University where she is also cross-appointed to the Industrial/Organizational Psychology unit and affiliated with the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Johanna currently serves as the Vice-President of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association and has negotiated five collective agreements. Her primary area of research is the video game industry where she is interested in issues of workplace citizenship, representation and unionization, working conditions and the labour process, project management, and occupational identity. A selection of Johanna’s academic papers are open access at Scholarship@Western and numerous public reports about quality of work life in the digital game industry can be found at GameQoL.