Professor Jane Suiter - Secretariat

Jane Suiter is Full Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City Universty. Her research focus is on the information environment in the public sphere and in particular on scaling up deliberation and tackling disinformation.

Jane is director of DCU's Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society. She has been involved in various research and oversight capacities on the Irish Citizens' Assembly (2012-2022) ) 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. She was the joint winner of the Brown Democracy Medal in 2019 and was awarded the prestigious title of the Irish Research Council's Researcher of the Year in 2020. She has published in 40 plus journals including Science, International Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Political Communication and the International Journal of Communication and is the author of three books including Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Frontline published by Cornell University Press and Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media with Dr Eileen Culotty.