Dónal Mulligan
Dr
Dónal Mulligan is a lecturer and researcher at Dublin City University's School of Communications, where he works on interdisciplinary digital research topics, and teaches on a range of modules related to digital media analysis, design and production. In 2017, he won the President's Teaching Award for Distinctive Approaches to Assessment & Feedback and in 2023 the Overall Award for Excellence in Teaching.
His recent work has focussed in the development and delivery of policy and practice models for the critical review and integration of Generative AI (genAI) in Higher Education. He is also interested in how identity and political discourse are mediated in the structured conversational spaces of social media, and how the emergent field of computational social science addresses and answers these issues with new methodologies. He has collaborated in the development of novel methodologies across disciplines, including current work intersecting with Education Studies and previously with Geochemistry.
Dónal Mulligan is the founding Chair of the Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty Research Ethics Committee, at DCU, and has contributed to the development of new procedures and policy for ethics and reporting. He was a member (2019-2023) of the RIA Irish Humanities Alliance board, and working group on Digital Humanities. He has co-founded and is currently a committee member of DCU's Interdisciplinary Digital Research Group, and is Research Integrity Advocate for the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2025 | Junhong Xiao; Aras Bozkurt; Mark Nichols; Angelica Pazurek; Christian M. Stracke; John Y. H. Bai; Robert Farrow; Dónal Mulligan; Chrissi Nerantzi; Ramesh Chander Sharma; Lenandlar Singh (2025) 'Venturing into the unknown: Critical insights into grey areas and pioneering future directions in educational generative AI research'. TechTrends, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-025-01060-6 | |
| 2024 | Bozkurt, A.; Xiao, J.; Farrow, R.; Bai, J.Y.H.; Nerantzi, C.; Moore, S.; Dron, J.; Stracke, C.M.; Singh, L.; Crompton, H.; Koutropoulos, A.; Terentev, E.; Pazurek, A.; Nichols, M.; Sidorkin, A.M.; Costello, E.; Watson, S.; Mulligan, D.; Honeychurch, S.; Hodges, C.B.; Sharples, M.; Swindell, A.; Frumin, I.; Tlili, A.; VAN TRYON, P.J.S.; Bond, M.; Bali, M.; Leng, J.; Zhang, K.; Cukurova, M.; Chiu, T.K.F.; Lee, K.; Hrastinski, S.; Garcia, M.B.; Sharma, R.C.; Alexander, B.; Zawacki-Richter, O.; Huijser, H.; Jandrić, P.; Zheng, C.; Shea, P.; Duart, J.M.; Themeli, C.; Vorochkov, A.; Sani-Bozkurt, S.; Moore, R.L.; Asino, T.I. (2024) 'The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future'. Open Praxis, 16 . [Link] [DOI] |
Conference Publication
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2018 | Mulligan, Dónal (2018) Innovations and Design in Online and Blended Learning (EdTech 2018) Developing an online peer review tool for university group project based assessment Ireland, [Link] | |
| 2017 | Mulligan, Dónal (2017) Queering Ireland 2017: 19th Annual USC Comparative Literature Conference . In: Madden, E eds. Social change, 140 characters at a time: A Bourdieusian analysis of the discourse of topical Irish political discourse on Twitter Columbia, South Carolina, | |
| 2015 | Mulligan, Dónal (2015) Fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference in Humanities and Education Tracking Twitter: Quantitative methodological imperatives derived from qualitative interviewing | |
| 2023 | Dónal Mulligan (2023) SEX PAN!CS 2023 Pretty Vicious Abuse - Structural Analysis of Organised Homophobic Hate Speech Against an Irish Minister on Twitter Dublin, Ireland, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10703279 |
Conference Contribution
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2010 | Mulligan, Dónal (2010) Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland. Alberta, Canada: BREV [Link] |
Discussion Paper
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2017 | Mulligan, Dónal; Judge, Miriam (2017) Systematic evaluation of educational apps: The MICOOL App Rubric. Dublin, Ireland: DP [Link] |
Committees
Media
Outreach Activities
Research Interests
Teaching Interests
- Generative AI in Higher Education Teaching & Learning
- Interactive & Responsive Media Production
- Digital Mediated Communication, especially data literacy and communications
- Programming and Design for engaging Interactivity
- Pedagogy & Teaching Practice for Practical & Production Modules
- Group-based Assessment Strategies & Good Practice
- Interdisciplinary Approaches in Digital T&L
- Research Ethics Policy & Procedure Development