{{Short description|Irish political scientist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{use Hiberno-English|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = |name=Jane Suiter |image=File:Prof Jane Suiter.jpg |occupation=Political scientist |workplaces=Dublin City University<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |url=https://www.dcu.ie/communications/people/jane-suiter.shtml |title=Jane Suiter {{!}} Staff Profile {{!}} DCU |website=www.dcu.ie |date=29 January 2015 |access-date=16 March 2019 }}</ref>|thesis_title=Chieftains delivering : political determinants of capital spending in Ireland 2001-07 |thesis_year=2011 |thesis_url=http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/78221?show=full |alma_mater=Trinity College Dublin }}
'''Jane Suiter''' is an Irish political scientist, professor and director of Dublin City University's Institute for Future Media, Democracy, and Society ("FuJo")<ref name="Weckler">{{Cite web |first=Adrian |last=Weckler |date=29 April 2020 |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/big-tech-failing-to-tackle-the-spread-of-fake-news-39166417.html |website=Independent.ie |title=Big tech 'failing to tackle the spread of fake news'}}</ref> and research lead of Ireland's Constitutional Convention and the Citizens' Assembly.<ref name="CitAsmb_Juries">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wortfm.org/democracy-in-crisis-part-2-mini-publics-citizens-assemblies-and-juries/ |author=((8 O'Clock Buzz)) |title=Democracy In Crisis Part 2: Mini-publics, Citizens' Assemblies and Juries |date=28 August 2020 |website=WORTfm.org |access-date=31 August 2020}}</ref> She is the co-author or co-editor of three academic books and one guide book,<ref name="DubKids">{{Cite book |isbn=0-86278-814-5 |title=Dublin for Kids |last1=Suiter |first1=Jane |last2=Trehy |first2=Louise|date=17 June 2003 |publisher=O'Brien Press}}</ref><ref name="ECPR_bk">{{Cite web |url=http://press.ecpr.eu/book_details.asp?bookTitleID=395 |title=ECPR Press: Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe - ISBN 9781785521454 |website=ecpr.eu |access-date=16 March 2019 |archive-date=11 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911182428/http://press.ecpr.eu/book_details.asp?bookTitleID=395 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and over 40 journal articles.<ref name="GSch_srch">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ks5cdP4AAAAJ&hl=en |title=Jane Suiter - Google Scholar Citations |website=scholar.google.com|access-date=16 March 2019 }}</ref> In December 2020, she was named "Researcher of the Year" by the Irish Research Council<ref name="ROTY">{{Cite web |date=9 December 2020 |title=Dr Jane Suiter named Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year |url=http://research.ie/2020/12/09/professor-jane-suiter-named-irish-research-council-researcher-of-the-year/ |access-date=19 January 2021 |website=Irish Research Council |language=en}}</ref> and in February 2021, she was promoted to the position of professor by DCU.<ref name="profpromotion">{{Cite web|url=https://fujomedia.eu/fujo-director-jane-suiter-promoted-to-professor/|title=FuJo Director Jane Suiter promoted to professor|date=12 February 2021 |website=FUJOMedia.eu}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="IT_EconEd">{{Cite web |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economics-editor-is-appointed-1.276566 |title=Economics Editor is appointed |date=2 February 2001 |website=IrishTimes.com |access-date=16 March 2019 }}</ref><ref name="IT_srch">{{cite web |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/topics/topics-7.1213540?article=true&tag_person=Jane+Suiter |title="Articles tagged "Jane Suiter" |website=IrishTimes.com|date=16 February 2022 }}</ref> She earned a doctorate from Trinity College Dublin's political science department in 2010.<ref>{{cite thesis|first=Jane |last=Suiter |title=Chieftains delivering : political determinants of capital spending in Ireland 2001-07 |url=http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/78221?show=full |date=2010 |publisher=Trinity College Dublin|hdl=2262/78221?show=full }}</ref> As a media commentator she has contributed to BBC News,<ref name="Ref15">{{cite web |website=BBC.com |url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32809355 |title=Why Ireland's holding a same-sex marriage referendum|last1=Suiter|first1=Jane|last2=Reidy|first2=Theresa|date=21 May 2015|access-date=22 March 2019}}</ref> ''The Washington Post'',<ref name="WashPo">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/06/05/the-irish-vote-for-marriage-equality-started-at-a-constitutional-convention/|title=The Irish vote for marriage equality started at a constitutional convention |last1=Farrell|first1=David|authorlink1=David Farrell (political scientist)|last2=Harris|first2=Clodagh|date=5 June 2015|website=WashingtonPost.com|access-date=22 March 2019|last3=Suiter|first3=Jane}}</ref> and ''The Late Debate'' on RTÉ Radio 1.
At Dublin City University, she has specialised in the fields of deliberative democracy, journalism, and disinformation.<ref name="Hutton+IT">{{Cite news |last=Hutton |first=Brian |title=All politics is social: How Fine Gael and Sinn Féin have taken the fight online |language=en |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/all-politics-is-social-how-fine-gael-and-sinn-f%C3%A9in-have-taken-the-fight-online-1.4552432 |access-date=1 May 2021 |date=1 May 2021}}</ref> In 2018 she led a research project "journalism and Leadership Transformation"<ref name="IT_disinf prj">{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/dcu-leading-3-9m-data-journalism-project-1.3476839 |title=DCU leading €3.9m data journalism project |date=28 April 2018 |first=Peter |last=Hamilton |access-date=21 March 2019 |newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref> as well as a European Commission Horizon 2020-funded project "Provenance" with Science Foundation Ireland's ADAPT stream to tackle online disinformation.<ref name="DCU_Kennedy">{{cite web |title=DCU leads €2.4m EU project to tackle 'fake news' |first=John |last=Kennedy |date=8 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108100448/https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/dcu-provenance-project-fake-news |url=https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/dcu-provenance-project-fake-news |archive-date=8 November 2018 |access-date=1 April 2019 |website=Silicon Republic |url-status=live}}</ref> She is a visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University.<ref name="IE_FutNews">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107035537/https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/specialreports/threats-abound-in-the-future-of-news-895919.html |title=Threats abound in the future of news |date=7 January 2019 |first=Joyce |last=Fegan |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/specialreports/threats-abound-in-the-future-of-news-895919.html |archive-date=7 January 2019 |website=IrishExaminer.com |url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2020 she co-authored a study into behaviours and attitudes during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.<ref name="DCU_2020">{{Cite web | url=https://www.dcu.ie/news/news/2020/May/DCU-responds-multiple-research-initiatives-find-swift-solutions-challenges-posed |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200528231817/https://www.dcu.ie/news/news/2020/May/DCU-responds-multiple-research-initiatives-find-swift-solutions-challenges-posed|archive-date = 28 May 2020|title = DCU responds with multiple research initiatives to find swift solutions to challenges posed by Covid-19 crisis |website=DCU.ie|date = 13 May 2020}}</ref> She is co-editor of the Taylor & Francis academic journal ''Journal of Contemporary European Studies''.<ref name="TnF_JCES">{{cite web |archive-date=1 April 2019 |access-date=1 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401105034/https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=cjea20 |title=Journal of Contemporary European Studies - Editorial board |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=cjea20 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |url-status=live}}</ref>
===Public projects=== In 2011, Suiter created (with University College Dublin political scientist David M. Farrell)<ref name="IrCitAsmb_podcast">{{cite podcast |edition=S08E07 |work=Future Hindsight |first=Mila |last=Atmos |title=Interview with the Irish Citizens' Assembly (Jane Suiter & David Farrell)--Future Hindsight |publisher=YouTube |date=26 December 2019 |accessdate=29 May 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XdcSpwIjZk}}</ref> "We the Citizens", a national initiative to increase public engagement with politics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/05/a-jury-of-peers/|title=A Jury of Peers |last=McKay |first=Susan |date=5 January 2019 |website=ForeignPolicy.com}}</ref> The pair convened the Constitutional Convention in 2012,<ref name="bio" /> as well as the Citizens' Assembly on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution in 2016,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://citizenassembly.ie/|title=The Irish Citizens' Assembly Project |website=CitizensAssembly.ie |access-date=19 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616171354/http://citizenassembly.ie/ |archive-date=16 June 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> both of which reviewed potential constitutional changes in the Irish state.<ref name="WashPo" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Quinn |first=David |date=2 May 2021 |title=Citizens' assembly is a stitch-up, not democracy |language=en |work=The Sunday Times (Ireland) |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/citizens-assembly-is-a-stitch-up-not-democracy-dqp6r5qhl |access-date=2 May 2021 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref> 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.<ref name="BrownMedal">{{cite web|url=https://news.psu.edu/story/562496/2019/03/13/impact/irish-citizens-assembly-project-receive-2019-brown-democracy-medal|title=The Irish Citizens' Assembly Project to receive the 2019 Brown Democracy Medal |date=13 March 2019|publisher=Penn State |location=University Park, Pennsylvania |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322133802/https://news.psu.edu/story/562496/2019/03/13/impact/irish-citizens-assembly-project-receive-2019-brown-democracy-medal |url-status=live |access-date=22 March 2019|archive-date=22 March 2019 }}</ref> In 2020, Suiter, Farrell, TU Dublin's Yvonne Galligan and Simon Niemeyer of the Australian Citizen's Parliament,<ref>{{citation |title=The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy |journal=Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation |volume=8 |editor-last1=Gastil |editor-first1=John |editor-link1=John Gastil |display-editors=etal |page=162 |jstor=10.5325/j.ctt32b9zd |year=2013 |publisher=Penn State University Press|doi=10.5325/j.ctt32b9zd |isbn=978-0-271-06012-5 }}</ref> received a research fellowship<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Inaugural meeting of Citizens' Assembly on gender equality |website=CitizensAssembly.ie |archive-date=19 February 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219184453/http://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/news-publications/press-releases/inaugural-meeting-of-citizens-assembly-on-gender-equality.html |url=https://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/news-publications/press-releases/inaugural-meeting-of-citizens-assembly-on-gender-equality.html |access-date=19 February 2020 |date=25 January 2020 }}</ref> to convene the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McGarry |first=Patsy |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/gender-equality-citizen-s-assembly-moves-to-fulfil-1916-proclamation-aims-1.4151805 |title=Gender equality: Citizen's Assembly moves to fulfil 1916 Proclamation aims |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=19 February 2020 |author-link=Patsy McGarry |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Regan |first=Eilish |date=9 January 2021 |title=Public asked to be part of a 'Citizens' Jury' on how personal health records are used |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/public-asked-to-be-part-of-a-citizens-jury-on-how-personal-health-records-are-used-39950582.html |access-date=19 January 2021 |website=Independent.ie |language=en}}</ref>
===Work with the Royal Irish Academy=== Suiter is a member of the Social Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy.<ref name="RIA_profile">{{cite web |title=Social Sciences Committee: S |url=https://www.ria.ie/bios/social-sciences-committee/s |access-date=4 May 2021 |website=Royal Irish Academy}}</ref>
==Awards and honours== * DCU President's Research Award in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Education and related areas 2018<ref>{{cite web |url-status=live |access-date=21 May 2019 |title=Research award recipients honoured |website=DCU.ie |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521155416/https://www.dcu.ie/news/news/2019/May/Awards-for-outstanding-contributions-journalism-climate-change-information |date=3 May 2019 |archive-date=21 May 2019 |url=https://www.dcu.ie/news/news/2019/May/Awards-for-outstanding-contributions-journalism-climate-change-information}}</ref> * McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University, Brown Medal for Democracy (shared) 2019<ref name="BrownMedal" /> * Irish Research Council's "Researcher of the Year" 2020<ref name="ROTY"/>
==Books== * {{cite book |title=Dublin for Kids: 800 Things to Do in and Around Dublin for the Family |first1=Jane |last1=Suiter |location=Dublin |last2=Trehy |first2=Louise |publisher=O'Brien Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-86278-814-8 |ref=none}} * {{cite book |title=Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe. |editor-last1=Reuchamps |editor-first1=Min |editor-first2=Jane |editor-last2=Suiter |publisher=ECPR |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-78552-258-1 |location=Colchester, UK |ref=none}} * {{cite book |title=Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line |first1=David M. |last1=Farrell |authorlink1=David Farrell (political scientist) |last2=Suiter |first2=Jane |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-5017-4934-6 |ref=none |url=https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501749339/reimagining-democracy/#bookTabs=1}} * {{cite book|title=Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media: Information Pathologies |first1=Eileen |last1=Culloty |first2=Jane |last2=Suiter|publisher=Routledge |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-000-35667-0 |ref=none}} <!-- How Ireland Voted 2020 - not yet published -->
==Personal life== Suiter married music journalist Leo Finlay in 1990. English rock band Blur, played at the reception in King's Inns, Dublin.<ref name="Joe.ie">{{cite web |title=Pics: A ridiculously young Blur playing at an Irish wedding back in 1990 |year=2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322134347/https://www.joe.ie/music/pics-a-ridiculously-young-blur-playing-at-an-irish-wedding-back-in-1990-511787 |archive-date=22 March 2019 |url-status=live|url=https://www.joe.ie/music/pics-a-ridiculously-young-blur-playing-at-an-irish-wedding-back-in-1990-511787 |first=Tony |last=Cuddihy |website=JOE.ie}}</ref><ref name="Air we go">{{cite news |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/air-we-go-14401371.html |title=Air we go |date=12 July 2009 |access-date=19 March 2019 |work=The Belfast Telegraph |url-access=subscription |first=Tina |last=Calder}}</ref> They had one son.<ref name="RTEBlur">{{cite AV media |first=Colm |last=Finlay |title=Blur At Oxygen |publisher=Drivetime (RTÉ) |format=MP3 |url=http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2015/0907/20150907_rteradio1-drivetime-theirishma_c20842426_20842432_232_/20150907_rteradio1-drivetime-theirishma_c20842426_20842432_232_.mp3 |accessdate=26 August 2019}}</ref> Finlay died in 1996.<ref name="RTEBlur"/>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{scholia|Q57975496}} * [http://www.wethecitizens.ie We the Citizens (initiative)]
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