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New article! 📚 'Shorter but richer vs. longer with less info: Linguistic differentiation between #BSL & #SSE.' Explore how signers define these systems.
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Shorter but richer versus longer with less information: linguistic differentiation between British Sign Language and sign supported English
The distinction between natural sign languages and sign-supported speech is a controversial topic and difficult to assess purely on structural terms because of language contact. Here, we consider Brit...
![Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss
Erica Borgstrom Erica.borgstrom@open.ac.uk, Annelieke Driessen, […], and Kathryn Almack+3View all authors and affiliations
Volume 72, Issue 5
https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231207196
Bidding for research funding has increasingly become a main feature of academic work from the doctoral level and beyond. Individually and collectively, the process of grant writing – from idea conceptualisation to administration – involves considerable work, including emotional work in imagining possible futures in which the project is enacted. Competition and failure in grant capture are high, yet there is little discussion about how academics experience grant rejections. In this article we draw on our experiences with grant rejections, as authors with diverse social science backgrounds working with death and bereavement, to discuss how grant rejection can be conceptualised as a form of loss and lead to feelings of grief. We end by considering what forms of recognition and support this may enable.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ojuj6yws4naor7qonm7ko453/bafkreidu44n4tgsf7eiwlw4kupbz5sipjxt3i23iwhlzfi6vm52mmapg5a)
