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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 ar...

Professor Stefan Klein and Dr. Simeon Vidolov present their paper, "Techno-colonization of scholarly communication: A call to reclaim control".  This paper contributes to wider research into how extractive publishing systems have colonized scholarly communication to gain not only infrastructural control but increasingly epistemic control as well. For far too long, big publishing companies hav...

CITO Seminar: The Sanctuary Hypothesis in Information Systems — Blockchain and AI as Strategic Havens for Non-Dominant Organisations Guest: Jean-Fabrice Lebraty  Host: Donncha Kavanagh  Recorded on Tuesday, September 23, 4:00 - 5:00pm in Q2.33 Lochlann Quinn School of Business, UCD Belfield Campus. Abstract   This talk introduces a theory of dominant vs non-dominant organisations in...

Hosted by Sean Lynch and Akshara Jonna.  In this episode, the Design Thinking class talk with Liam Brady and Thomas Hamill from the UCD Estate Services team about the complexities of modern campus design, focusing on accessibility features that go "beyond compliance" and how these lessons are applied to the wider campus day-to-day. We take a look inside the design process for the new O’Connor...

Welcome to Design Talk. In this episode Killian O'Connor and Albena Krasteva from Zartis were in to talk to Masters students at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Killian and Albena presented a candid behind-the-scenes analysis of Zartis' initial struggles adopting AI within their own organisation. They went on to explain how their experience has led to insights that shape Z...

In this, our first episode on ‘research design’ and ‘research designing’ I talk with Maya Gaul and Dunk Murphy from the Creative Futures Academy at UCD. Maya is completing a BA in Creative & Cultural Industries. Her final year project combines research with performance. The subject is Creative Community; an exploration of Irish Arts organisations and how they produce ‘belonging’. Maya talked a...

Psilocybin, Heidegger and being-toward-death Between 2020 and 2023 psychologist Marg Ross and psychiatrist Justin Dwyer, together with collaborators, ran the largest Australian randomised control of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of extreme death anxiety in terminally ill patients using psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) (Ross et al, 2025).  Over the p...

Today we’re talking with Fernandos Ongolly, to learn about home-grown innovations and digital startups from The Continent – in this case, Africa.  Our hosts are Selma Anya, Safa A. A. Emam, and Diana Achiro, students on the MSc Digital Innovation programme. Fernandos has a PhD from UCD. He is the current “Proudly Made in Africa” Fellow in Business and Development at UCD College of Business, a...

Our guest for this session is Anna Scally - Partner and Head of Technology Media & Telecoms, KPMG in Ireland and EMA KPMG in Ireland. This is the third of 3 seminars organised by John Mooney as part of the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School MBA programme in collaboration with UCD’s MSc Digital Innovation programme. Anna gave a masterclass intro to corporate taxation in Ireland and its relati...

Our guest for this session is Dajana Achelpohl. Dajana heads up AI Change Maker and is an alum of Google & PayPal. The second of 3 seminars organised by John Mooney as part of the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School MBA programme in collaboration with UCD’s MSc Digital Innovation programme. Notes: AI Change Maker -  https://www.aichangemaker.com Dajana on LinkedIn -  https...

Our guest for this session is Tom Rourke. Tom works in Kyndryl as Vice President for Design, Insights and Innovation. The first of 3 seminars organised by John Mooney as part of the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School MBA programme in collaboration with UCD’s MSc Digital Innovation programme. Notes: Tom Rourke – LinkedIn profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-rourke-1a8b70/ Tom...

Hosted by Brona Russell We are delighted to have Siobhain Duggan, CEO of GS1 Ireland in to talk to the first year Economics & finance Organisation Behaviour class today. The interview/podcast is being hosted by UCD’s first year Economics and Finance class as part of the Professional and Academic Development module. Our focus is on the human aspects of organising in corporate settings, recognis...

Our hosts are Diarmuid Murphy and Leo Cuddigan Welcome to the UCD Economics and Finance class.  We are delighted to have Peter Cripwell, CEO at RiskSystem, in to talk to us today about Risk Analytics and Risk Reporting and the value of knowing a bit about programming. To start, Peter, can you tell us how you went from Nuclear Physicist to CEO of RiskSystem. ·     &nbs...

Welcome to the Economics and Finance class. Our hosts are Daksh Wadhwa and Peter Barrett.  Today, we are very pleased to welcome Denis McCarthy, Head of Financial Risk Model Development at AIB. Thank you for coming in to speak to us today. Can you tell us a little about yourself and your journey into financial risk modelling? ·       What does a day in the w...

Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares. Welcome to today’s seminar by David Sammon from UCC, Cork University Business School. In this session David Sammon from University College Cork talks about his approach to unlocking the value of the 2x2 Matrix in the classroom. David is co-Founder of the Data Value Innovation Group, whose mission is helping organisations to deliver va...

Welcome to the CITO Podcast. Séamas Kelly invites Hippolyte Lefebvre to present an overview of his research interests and direction. Hippolyte is a member of CITO and the Management Information Systems group in the UCD College of Business, Dublin, and previously at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Notes, extra questions, and further reading: Homepage at UCD -  https://people.ucd.ie/hi...

Hosted by Alex and Conor.  Welcome to the UCD 2nd year Economics and Finance class.  Today, we are pleased to welcome Donal Rafferty, Director Product Development in Open Finance at Mastercard, Dublin. Thank you for coming in to speak to us today, can you share a little of your own story? ·       So, we’d like to start one of the ideas behind this...

Welcome to the CITO Podcast. This episode is a seminar by Quinn DuPont titled “Making New Money: How autonomous communities produce and govern cryptocurrencies.”  Paul Dylan-Ennis opens the session with a brief introduction after which Quinn presents an overview of his project, and Donncha Kavanagh makes some observations and invites reactions. Decentralized cryptocurrencies are upending the...

Our hosts for this episode are William Mugan and Grace Gunne from the BSc UCD Economics and Finance class. Today, we are very pleased to welcome Jane Antova from IBM Consulting and colleagues Angela Stakelum and Bernadette Keating. First, Jane, can you share a little of your own story and starting out in IBM? So, what does a day in the life look like?  These days, do you find yourself ne...

Our hosts are Tara O’Reilly and Jack Kavanagh.  Welcome to the Economics and Finance class. Today, we are very pleased to welcome Raul Afonso, Chartered Financial Analyst and Chief Economist at MFW (Multi Family Wealth). MFW is an investment firm providing investment services on managed accounts and investment funds.  Thank you for coming in to speak to us Raul. Can you share a little of...

Today’s hosts are Isabelle Howard and Adam Golden.  We are very pleased to welcome Dan Evison, Founder and CEO of Manakau, a Financial Services Delivery and Consulting company based in Ireland. Thank you for coming in to speak to us today Dan. Can you tell us a little about yourself and the story behind starting Manakau? ·        You’ve spent your career wor...

Welcome to Design Talk. This episode resurrects a recording from the College of Business Intercultural Forum bite-sized workshop series, session 7. A conversation with Jacob Eisenberg and Allen Higgins on “adapting experiential learning to the digital classroom”. The talk was hosted by Kathleen O’Reilly and Linda Yang. Key takeaways: Students benefit from being in control of at least some of the s...

Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares. Welcome to today’s seminar by Stefan Helfrich. In this session Stefan talks about the education paths on offer for data analytics and the need for balance between learning concepts versus hands-on experiences with tools. Stefan makes the case for the value of visual workflow approaches for teaching and implementing analytics. How do w...

Welcome to Design Talk. In this episode I give a short talk titled “Doshite Nippon?” for Naonori sensei’s 'Gateways to Japan' discovery module at University College Dublin. The talk was recorded on April 1st 2025. Kodate sensei is founding Director of the UCD Centre for Japanese Studies and Director of the Public Policy Programme in UCD. Why Japan? I contend that it is good to experience the...

Welcome to today’s seminar by Marios Kremantzis. In this session Marios presents current work related to two highly quantitative classes that have adopted a Chatbot as a teaching assistant. Two classes: Prescriptive Analytics” for the MSc Business Analytics programme and “Mathematics for Economists”, for the BSc Economics programme Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares. Fu...