Career
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 RTÉRadio 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]
Public projects
In 2011,Suiter created (with University College Dublin political scientist David M. Farrell) [20] "We the Citizens",a national initiative to increase public engagement with politics. [21] The pair convened the Constitutional Convention in 2012, [1] as well as the Citizens' Assembly on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution in 2016, [22] both of which reviewed potential constitutional changes in the Irish state. [13] [23] This culminated in successful referendums;the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland introduced marriage equality and the Thirty-sixth repealed the constitutional ban on abortion.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 Penn State University. [24] In 2020,Suiter,Farrell,TU Dublin's Yvonne Galligan and Simon Niemeyer of the Australian Citizen's Parliament, [25] received a research fellowship [26] to convene the 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]
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