Jane Suiter

Jane Suiter is an Irish political scientist, professor and director of Dublin City University's Institute for Future Media, Democracy, and Society ("FuJo")[2] and research lead of Ireland's Constitutional Convention and the Citizens' Assembly.[3] She is the co-author or co-editor of three academic books and one guide book,[4][5] and over 40 journal articles.[6] In December 2020, she was named "Researcher of the Year" by the Irish Research Council[7] and in February 2021, she was promoted to the position of professor by DCU.[8]

Jane Suiter
OccupationPolitical scientist
Academic background
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
ThesisChieftains delivering : political determinants of capital spending in Ireland 2001-07 (2011)
Academic work
InstitutionsDublin City University[1]

Career

Suiter began her career at the FT Group and AP Dow Jones, and joined The Irish Times in 1996, before becoming economics editor in 2001.[9][10] She earned a doctorate from Trinity College Dublin's political science department in 2010.[11] As a media commentator she has contributed to BBC News,[12] The Washington Post,[13] and The Late Debate on RTÉ Radio 1.

At Dublin City University, she has specialised in the fields of deliberative democracy, journalism, and disinformation.[14] In 2018 she led a research project "journalism and Leadership Transformation"[15] as well as a European Commission Horizon 2020-funded project "Provenance" with Science Foundation Ireland's ADAPT stream to tackle online disinformation.[16] She is a visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University.[17]

In 2020 she co-authored a study into behaviours and attitudes during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.[18] She is co-editor of the Taylor & Francis academic journal Journal of Contemporary European Studies.[19]

Public projects

In 2011, Suiter created (with University College Dublin political scientist David M. Farrell)[20] "We the Citizens", a national initiative to increase public engagement with politics.[21] The pair convened the Constitutional Convention in 2012,[1] as well as the Citizens' Assembly on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution in 2016,[22] both of which reviewed potential constitutional changes in the Irish state.[13][23] This culminated in successful referendums; the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland introduced marriage equality and the Thirty-sixth repealed the constitutional ban on abortion. The project was awarded the Brown Medal for Democracy in 2019 by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University.[24] In 2020, Suiter, Farrell, TU Dublin's Yvonne Galligan and Simon Niemeyer of the Australian Citizen's Parliament,[25] received a research fellowship[26] to convene the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality.[27]

In 2021, Suiter convened a Citizen's jury for IPPOSI, a patients' advocacy group, to consider how medical information could best be centralised to ensure maximal patient benefit will minimise privacy and sensitivity concerns.[28]

Work with the Royal Irish Academy

Suiter is a member of the Social Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy.[29]

Awards and honours

Books
  • Suiter, Jane; Trehy, Louise (2003). Dublin for Kids: 800 Things to Do in and Around Dublin for the Family. Dublin: O'Brien Press. ISBN 978-0-86278-814-8.
  • Reuchamps, Min; Suiter, Jane, eds. (2016). Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe. Colchester, UK: ECPR. ISBN 978-1-78552-258-1.
  • Farrell, David M.; Suiter, Jane (2019). Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-4934-6.
  • Culloty, Eileen; Suiter, Jane (2021). Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media: Information Pathologies. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-35667-0.

Personal life

Suiter married music journalist Leo Finlay in 1990. English rock band Blur, played at the reception in King's Inns, Dublin.[31][32] They had one son.[33] Finlay died in 1996.[33]

References
  1. "Jane Suiter | Staff Profile | DCU". www.dcu.ie. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. Weckler, Adrian (29 April 2020). "Big tech 'failing to tackle the spread of fake news'". Independent.ie.
  3. 8 O'Clock Buzz (28 August 2020). "Democracy In Crisis Part 2: Mini-publics, Citizens' Assemblies and Juries". WORTfm.org. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  4. Suiter, Jane; Trehy, Louise (17 June 2003). Dublin for Kids. O'Brien Press. ISBN 0-86278-814-5.
  5. "ECPR Press: Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe - ISBN 9781785521454". ecpr.eu. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  6. "Jane Suiter - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  7. "Dr Jane Suiter named Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year". Irish Research Council. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  8. "FuJo Director Jane Suiter promoted to professor". FUJOMedia.eu. 12 February 2021.
  9. "Economics Editor is appointed". IrishTimes.com. 2 February 2001. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  10. ""Articles tagged "Jane Suiter"". IrishTimes.com.
  11. Suiter, Jane (2010). Chieftains delivering : political determinants of capital spending in Ireland 2001-07 (Thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/78221?show=full.
  12. Suiter, Jane; Reidy, Theresa (21 May 2015). "Why Ireland's holding a same-sex marriage referendum". BBC.com. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  13. Farrell, David; Harris, Clodagh; Suiter, Jane (5 June 2015). "The Irish vote for marriage equality started at a constitutional convention". WashingtonPost.com. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  14. Hutton, Brian (1 May 2021). "All politics is social: How Fine Gael and Sinn Féin have taken the fight online". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  15. Hamilton, Peter (28 April 2018). "DCU leading €3.9m data journalism project". The Irish Times. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  16. Kennedy, John (8 November 2018). "DCU leads €2.4m EU project to tackle 'fake news'". Silicon Republic. Archived from the original on 8 November 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  17. Fegan, Joyce (7 January 2019). "Threats abound in the future of news". IrishExaminer.com. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019.
  18. "DCU responds with multiple research initiatives to find swift solutions to challenges posed by Covid-19 crisis". DCU.ie. 13 May 2020. Archived from the original on 28 May 2020.
  19. "Journal of Contemporary European Studies - Editorial board". Taylor & Francis. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  20. Atmos, Mila (26 December 2019). "Interview with the Irish Citizens' Assembly (Jane Suiter & David Farrell)--Future Hindsight". Future Hindsight (Podcast) (S08E07 ed.). YouTube. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  21. McKay, Susan (5 January 2019). "A Jury of Peers". ForeignPolicy.com.
  22. "The Irish Citizens' Assembly Project". CitizensAssembly.ie. Archived from the original on 16 June 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  23. Quinn, David (2 May 2021). "Citizens' assembly is a stitch-up, not democracy". The Sunday Times (Ireland). ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  24. "The Irish Citizens' Assembly Project to receive the 2019 Brown Democracy Medal". University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State. 13 March 2019. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  25. Gastil, John; et al., eds. (2013), "The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy", Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation, Penn State University Press, 8: 162, doi:10.5325/j.ctt32b9zd, ISBN 978-0-271-06012-5, JSTOR 10.5325/j.ctt32b9zd
  26. "Inaugural meeting of Citizens' Assembly on gender equality". CitizensAssembly.ie (Press release). 25 January 2020. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  27. McGarry, Patsy. "Gender equality: Citizen's Assembly moves to fulfil 1916 Proclamation aims". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  28. O'Regan, Eilish (9 January 2021). "Public asked to be part of a 'Citizens' Jury' on how personal health records are used". Independent.ie. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  29. "Social Sciences Committee: S". Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  30. "Research award recipients honoured". DCU.ie. 3 May 2019. Archived from the original on 21 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  31. Cuddihy, Tony (2014). "Pics: A ridiculously young Blur playing at an Irish wedding back in 1990". JOE.ie. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019.
  32. Calder, Tina (12 July 2009). "Air we go". The Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  33. Finlay, Colm. Blur At Oxygen (MP3). Drivetime (RTÉ). Retrieved 26 August 2019.

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