Irish political scientist
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]
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Thirty-sixth repealed the constitutional ban on abortion.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
^
a
b
"Jane Suiter | Staff Profile | DCU" . www.dcu.ie . 29 January 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2019 .
^ Weckler, Adrian (29 April 2020).
"Big tech 'failing to tackle the spread of fake news' " .
Independent.ie .
^ 8 O'Clock Buzz (28 August 2020).
"Democracy In Crisis Part 2: Mini-publics, Citizens' Assemblies and Juries" .
WORTfm.org . Retrieved 31 August 2020 . {{
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link )
^ Suiter, Jane; Trehy, Louise (17 June 2003). Dublin for Kids .
O'Brien Press .
ISBN
0-86278-814-5 .
^
"ECPR Press: Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe - ISBN 9781785521454" .
ecpr.eu . Retrieved 16 March 2019 .
^
"Jane Suiter - Google Scholar Citations" . scholar.google.com . Retrieved 16 March 2019 .
^
a
b
"Dr Jane Suiter named Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year" .
Irish Research Council . 9 December 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021 .
^
"FuJo Director Jane Suiter promoted to professor" . FUJOMedia.eu . 12 February 2021.
^
"Economics Editor is appointed" .
IrishTimes.com . 2 February 2001. Retrieved 16 March 2019 .
^
" "Articles tagged "Jane Suiter" " .
IrishTimes.com . 16 February 2022.
^ Suiter, Jane (2010).
Chieftains delivering : political determinants of capital spending in Ireland 2001-07 (Thesis).
Trinity College Dublin .
hdl :
2262/78221?show=full .
^ Suiter, Jane; Reidy, Theresa (21 May 2015).
"Why Ireland's holding a same-sex marriage referendum" .
BBC.com . Retrieved 22 March 2019 .
^
a
b
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 .
^ 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 .
^ Hamilton, Peter (28 April 2018).
"DCU leading €3.9m data journalism project" .
The Irish Times . Retrieved 21 March 2019 .
^ 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 .
^ Fegan, Joyce (7 January 2019).
"Threats abound in the future of news" .
IrishExaminer.com .
Archived from the original on 7 January 2019.
^
"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.
^
"Journal of Contemporary European Studies - Editorial board" .
Taylor & Francis .
Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019 .
^ 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 .
^ McKay, Susan (5 January 2019).
"A Jury of Peers" .
ForeignPolicy.com .
^
"The Irish Citizens' Assembly Project" .
CitizensAssembly.ie .
Archived from the original on 16 June 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020 .
^ Quinn, David (2 May 2021).
"Citizens' assembly is a stitch-up, not democracy" .
The Sunday Times (Ireland) .
ISSN
0140-0460 . Retrieved 2 May 2021 .
^
a
b
"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 .
^
Gastil, John ; et al., eds. (2013), "The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy", Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation , 8 ,
Penn State University Press : 162,
doi :
10.5325/j.ctt32b9zd ,
ISBN
978-0-271-06012-5 ,
JSTOR
10.5325/j.ctt32b9zd
^
"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 .
^
McGarry, Patsy .
"Gender equality: Citizen's Assembly moves to fulfil 1916 Proclamation aims" .
The Irish Times . Retrieved 19 February 2020 .
^ 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 .
^
"Social Sciences Committee: S" .
Royal Irish Academy . Retrieved 4 May 2021 .
^
"Research award recipients honoured" .
DCU.ie . 3 May 2019.
Archived from the original on 21 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019 .
^ 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.
^ Calder, Tina (12 July 2009).
"Air we go" .
The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 19 March 2019 .
^
a
b Finlay, Colm.
Blur At Oxygen (MP3) .
Drivetime (RTÉ) . Retrieved 26 August 2019 .
External links
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