In this episode I talk to three lovely researchers all about journal clubs (AKA reading groups) – what they are, why you might want to be part of one, and how to start your own! I also give some insights from my own experiences running a (control-related) journal club, as well as a summary of three of my favourite papers we’ve read.

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References

Al Edwards: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/62mm7y/doctor-al-edwards

Antonia Marcu: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xk5lz/miss-antonia-marcu

Convexification for soft landing optimal control paper: http://www.larsblackmore.com/iee_tcst13.pdf

Improved soft robotic parameterisation paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8961972

KKL observer synthesis paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11655