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Kenworthy, A.L., Hurd, F. and Dyer, S. (2026), Navigating Grief: A Call for Loving, Nurturing, and Wholly Generative Academic Friendships. J. Manage. Stud.. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70059

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Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎙️✨

This is a space where scholarship gets to keep its citations, but it also gets to keep its pulse. Where the footnotes can stay, yet the human story does not have to whisper from the margins.

Today’s episode opens a door that academia often keeps politely shut. Behind it: grief. Illness. The kind of quiet dread that sits beside your laptop while you answer emails like nothing is happening. And also, something else: friendship. Not networking. Not “collaboration opportunities.” Friendship that is loving, nurturing, and wholly generative.

We are talking about a powerful essay titled “Navigating Grief: A Call for Loving, Nurturing, and Wholly Generative Academic Friendships” by Amy L. Kenworthy, Fiona Hurd, and Suzette Dyer, published online on 15 January 2026 in the Journal of Management Studies 📚🌿

And yes, this is a prestigious venue. Journal of Management Studies sits on the Financial Times FT50 journal list, which means this conversation is not happening in the academic sidelines. It is happening right at the center of what “counts” in management research. 🏛️✅

The authors do something brave. They speak in plain, trembling truth about what it means to work and teach and write while living alongside cancer, loss, and the unnameable ongoingness of anticipatory grief. One of them is dying. One has endured 11 years of treatment. One carries the invisible scars of watching beloved family members die of the same disease. Together, they describe an academic friendship that does not reduce pain into “resilience” buzzwords, but instead meets suffering honestly and stays. 🤝🕯️

Their call is simple, but it is not easy: to build a university culture where we acknowledge suffering directly, where we stop worshipping performative productivity, and where relational care is not treated like a soft distraction from “real work” but as a form of real work itself. 💛📖

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And with genuine appreciation, thanks to the authors Amy L. Kenworthy, Fiona Hurd, and Suzette Dyer, and to the publishers, the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., for making this research available to the field. 🙏📌

So here is the question that lingers, quietly, after the abstract ends and real life begins: when grief enters your academic world, who do you become, and who in your department is truly prepared to stay with you? ❓🕯️