Denise Mac Giolla Rí

Denise Mac Giolla Rí is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Health, Department of Social Sciences, at Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest. She completed her PhD at Lancaster University in 2023, focusing on visualizing threshold concepts in social care through semiotics and inquiry graphics. Her work aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education).

• PhD: Visualising Threshold Concepts in Social Care through the Semiotic Lens of Inquiry Graphics (Lancaster University, 2017–2023)
• ORCID: 0000-0001-7311-4277
• h-index: 18 (Scopus)

Her research integrates semiotics, inquiry graphics, and visual analysis to explore pedagogical frameworks in social care education. Recent publications emphasize multimodal storytelling, everyday creativity, and threshold concepts to enhance professional competencies.

Key trends in her publications include:

• Application of semiotic and visual methodologies in social sciences
• Development of inquiry graphics for educational assessment
• Critical analysis of self-evaluative practices in higher education
• Interdisciplinary approaches bridging social work, creativity, and visual literacy

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Student Supervision: She is accepting PhD students but no advisees are listed in the text.