Academic biography

Dónal Mulligan is a lecturer and researcher at Dublin City University's School of Communications, where he works on interdisciplinary topics related to media technologies and society. He teaches on a range of modules related to digital media analysis, technology applications, 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 computational methodologies support this analysis. He has collaborated in the development of novel methodologies and applications across disciplines, including current work intersecting with Education Studies and 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 DCU's Interdisciplinary Digital Research Group, has held roles as  Research Integrity Advocate for the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Program Chair, and other admin positions.