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Lomellini, G. (2026), Joyful Scholarship: Reclaiming Pleasure to Inspire Change in Academia. J. Manage. Stud.. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70088

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Welcome into Revise and Resubmit 🎙️📚, the little corner of your week where the footnotes breathe, the arguments have a pulse, and the people behind the PDFs finally get to be seen.

Tonight, I want to start with a feeling most of us learned to hide the moment we entered academia. Not fear. Not ambition. Not even impostor syndrome. I mean joy. The kind that arrives when an idea clicks, when a sentence sings, when a conversation with a text leaves you slightly undone in the best possible way ✨🧠.

Because somewhere along the way, many of us were trained to treat our work like a factory line. We collect “achievement coupons” 🧾🏁. We trade curiosity for compliance. We polish our arguments until they are spotless and strangely unlived in, like a guest room no one is allowed to sleep in. And we tell ourselves this is what seriousness looks like.

That is why today’s featured piece feels like a hand on the shoulder and a window thrown open 🌬️📖. We’re discussing “Joyful Scholarship: Reclaiming Pleasure to Inspire Change in Academia” by Gabriel Lomellini, published online on 16 February 2026 in the Journal of Management Studies, a truly prestigious FT50 journal 🏛️✅.

Lomellini reflects on the manufacture of joyless scholarship, that quiet deal where we give up pleasure in exchange for legitimacy. Then he flips the script. He argues that pleasure is not a distraction from good research. It is a compass 🧭. For young scholars, it helps you find your voice under all those competing pressures. Collectively, it can build belonging, the kind that forms when people stop performing brilliance and start practicing authenticity 🤝💛. Institutionally, it offers Deans and journal editors a path toward a more inclusive academy, not by adding another metric, but by restoring the human story behind discovery 📌🌱.

And maybe the most radical thing here is how practical the hope feels. Not utopian. Not naive. More like a “positive snowball effect” rolling forward, gathering courage, community, and better norms as it goes ❄️➡️🌍.

If this episode resonates, subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify 🎧 and find us on YouTube at Weekend Researcher 📺🔔. You can also listen on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast 🍎🎙️, because joy should be easy to access.

And before we begin, heartfelt thanks to Gabriel Lomellini, and to the publisher of the article, the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 🙏📘

So here’s the question I want to leave hanging in the doorway, just long enough for you to feel it: if pleasure is not the enemy of rigor, what kind of scholarship might you dare to write when you stop apologizing for what makes you feel alive? 🤔✨