Jane Suiter

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Jane Suiter
Political 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]

Jane Suiter is an Irish

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

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

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

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

  • DCU President's Research Award in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Education and related areas 2018[30]
  • McCourtney Institute for Democracy at
    Penn State University, Brown Medal for Democracy (shared) 2019[24]
  • Irish Research Council's "Researcher of the Year" 2020[7]

Books

  • Suiter, Jane; Trehy, Louise (2003). Dublin for Kids: 800 Things to Do in and Around Dublin for the Family. .
  • Reuchamps, Min; Suiter, Jane, eds. (2016). Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe. .
  • .
  • Culloty, Eileen; Suiter, Jane (2021). Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media: Information Pathologies. .

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. ^ a b "Jane Suiter | Staff Profile | DCU". www.dcu.ie. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. Independent.ie
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  3. WORTfm.org. Retrieved 31 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
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  5. ecpr.eu
    . Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Jane Suiter - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  7. ^ a b "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. IrishTimes.com
    . 2 February 2001. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  10. IrishTimes.com
    .
  11. .
  12. BBC.com
    . Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  13. ^
    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. IrishExaminer.com. Archived
    from the original on 7 January 2019.
  18. 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. ForeignPolicy.com
    .
  22. CitizensAssembly.ie. Archived
    from the original on 16 June 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  23. . Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  24. ^
    Penn State. 13 March 2019. Archived
    from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  25. CitizensAssembly.ie (Press release). 25 January 2020. Archived
    from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  26. . Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  27. Independent.ie
    . Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  28. ^ "Social Sciences Committee: S". Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  29. DCU.ie. 3 May 2019. Archived
    from the original on 21 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  30. from the original on 22 March 2019.
  31. The Belfast Telegraph
    . Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  32. ^ a b Finlay, Colm. Blur At Oxygen (MP3). Drivetime (RTÉ). Retrieved 26 August 2019.

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