Jane Suiter is an

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's Institute for Future Media, Democracy, and Society ("FuJo") and research lead of Ireland's Constitutional Convention and the Citizens' Assembly. She is the co-author or co-editor of three academic books and one guide book, and over 40

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articles. In December 2020, she was named "Researcher of the Year" by the

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and in February 2021, she was promoted to the position of professor by DCU.

Career

Suiter began her career at the FT Group and AP Dow Jones, and joined ''

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'' in 1996, before becoming economics

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in 2001. She earned a

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from

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

's political science department in 2010. As a media commentator she has contributed to

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, ''

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'', and ''The Late Debate'' on

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. At Dublin City University, she has specialised in the fields of

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, and

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. In 2018 she led a research project "journalism and Leadership Transformation" as well as a

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-funded project "Provenance" with

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stream to tackle online disinformation. She is a

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at the

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. In 2020 she co-authored a study into behaviours and attitudes during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown. She is co-editor of the

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academic journal '' Journal of Contemporary European Studies''.

Public projects

In 2011, Suiter created (with

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political scientist David M. Farrell) "We the Citizens", a national initiative to increase public engagement with politics. The pair convened the Constitutional Convention in 2012, as well as the Citizens' Assembly on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution in 2016, both of which reviewed potential constitutional changes in the Irish state. This culminated in successful

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; the

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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

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. In 2020, Suiter, Farrell,

TU Dublin Technological University Dublin ( ga, Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath) or TU Dublin is Ireland's first technological university, established on 1 January 2019, and with a history stretching back to 1887 through the amalgamated D ...

Yvonne Galligan Yvonne Galligan OBE is an Irish political scientist and consultant who is currently teaching at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin. Galligan is a Professor of Compa ...

and Simon Niemeyer of the Australian Citizen's Parliament, received a research fellowship to convene the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality. 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.

Work with the Royal Irish Academy

Suiter is a member of the ''Social Sciences Committee'' of the

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Awards and honours

* DCU President's Research Award in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Education and related areas 2018 * McCourtney Institute for Democracy at

, Brown Medal for Democracy (shared) 2019 *

's "Researcher of the Year" 2020

Books

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Personal life

Suiter married music journalist Leo Finlay in 1990. English rock band Blur, played at the

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. They had one son. Finlay died in 1996.

References

External links

We the Citizens (initiative)

Authority control

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