Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield
Jane Suiter is Professor in Dublin City University’s (DCU) School of Communications where her research focuses on the information environment in the public sphere and in particular on scaling up deliberation and tackling disinformation. She is also Director of DCU’s Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society.
Jane has been involved in various research and oversight capacities on the Irish Citizens’ Assemblies that began in 2012 and was a founder member of We the Citizens (2011), Ireland’s first deliberative experiment. She is a member of the OECD’s FutureDemocracy network and on the advisory board of the Federation of Innovation in Democracy Europe (FIDE) and has also advised in Scotland and elsewhere on citizens’ assemblies. Jane has testified at the OECD, the European Parliament, the UN and the UNDP as well as the Oireachtas. She was the joint winner of the Brown Democracy Medal in 2019 and the President’s Award for Research. She was awarded the prestigious title of the Irish Research Council’s Researcher of the Year in 2020.
Jane’s work has been published in over 30 journals and she is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and the Reuters Institute at Oxford University. She is a frequent contributor to broadcast and print media and a former journalist having worked as Economics Editor at The Irish Times and for other media such as the FT Group and AP Dow Jones.