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]

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]

• 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]

• 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.

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]