Professor Jane Suiter is the Director of DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo). She is a social scientist whose research interests focus on the public sphere. Her present research is focused on the social, political and communicative aspects of citizen participation, empowerment and direct and participative democracy. She has a particular interest in the potential of deliberation and has worked on and researched a number of real-world deliberative assemblies, including We the Citizens, the Irish Constitutional Convention, and Citizen Assembly (2012-2023) in Ireland and internationally.