{"podcast":{"title":"Design Talk (dot IE)","slug":"design-talk-dot-ie-3492246","podcast_index_feed_id":3492246,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5fda353b5f9eb72404a5200f","website_url":"https://www.designtalk.ie","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5fda353b5f9eb72404a5200f/1716494071783-5efb7c8afb7496a164b240c4616376f1.jpeg","author":"Allen Higgins","episode_count":198,"summary":"Design Talk. A podcast for learning about the business of technology design and management. Listen to stories, panels, interviews and discussions about technology and design in-the-wild: the good, the beautiful, and the useful. Whether you've got one big idea, you think of yourself as an organisation designer, product designer, creator, or entrepreneur. Each episode offers a take on how people design, strategise, organise, and develop technology. We want to dig into the essence of design, discover the backstory to technologies, and unpack the design attitude. We started this podcast for you, because you are interested in tinkering, in making, and how ideas become 'things', and because we are all, in some way, involved in designing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T06:20:42.650489+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246"},"episode":{"title":"0275 - Talking about reading groups with Adam Kelly","slug":"0275-talking-about-reading-groups-with-adam-kelly","published_at":"2026-06-30T15:48:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246/0275-talking-about-reading-groups-with-adam-kelly","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246","url":"https://www.designtalk.ie","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5fda353b5f9eb72404a5200f/e/6a43e531d668ce4585e9ec67/media.mp3","summary":"In this episode I talk with Adam Kelly about ACADEMIC reading groups, which I think we’ll DISCOVER, are a whole lot different to book clubs. Adam is an Associate Professor of English in UCD’s School of English, Drama and Film. He has written books himself and published special editions and edited collections and proceedings, (which, for our audience, are books too), and written numerous journal articles, conference papers and reviews (publications that are a bit like books but shorter). OBVIOUSLY you know a thing or two about WRITING (we might talk about that in depth some time)… But, what about this other THING, READING, you must also be very good at it too? Have reading groups had much of an IMPACT on your academic intellectual DEVELOPMENT? We’re talking about READING groups. But when the group meets, you don’t sit around READING do you? Why don’t we call them TALKING groups? So, what is a reading group? What’s it good for?  How does the thing you’re reading impact the way you organize the gathering? (monograph, selected chapters, collection of articles, scripts, interpreting artefacts like designs, cases) Must you decide all the readings in advance? (you invited members to offer readings, gave them agency, value of doing it this way?) Where does the audience come from? Relatedly, what about the angle of disciplinary versus inter-disciplinary? Room for both? Thoughts on pace? (weekly, fortnightly, monthly) Are deliverables or traces important? (artefacts like blogs, pods, websites). I know some people hope that each topic would be written up. Is that too much to expect? Reading group lifetime - what to do when they run out of steam? Acknowledgements Music  Title: Menehune Dance  Artist: James Pants Source:   https://freemusicarchive.org/music…","meta_description":"In this episode I talk with Adam Kelly about ACADEMIC reading groups, which I think we’ll DISCOVER, are a whole lot different to book clubs. Adam is an As…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2093,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246/episodes/0275-talking-about-reading-groups-with-adam-kelly/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246/0275-talking-about-reading-groups-with-adam-kelly.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}