Sindy Joyce
Irish Traveller human rights activist and academic sociologist

Sindy Joyce

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Irish Traveller human rights activist and academic sociologist
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Sindy Joyce is an Irish Traveller human rights activist and academic sociologist. In January 2019 she became the first Irish Traveller to obtain a doctorate from an Irish university. Her doctoral dissertation, "Mincéirs Siúladh: An ethnographic study of young Travellers’ experiences of urban space", explored the interaction of young Travellers with the settled community and the gardaí in Galway city.

Publications

  • Sindy Joyce, "Divided Spaces: An examination of everyday racism and its impact on young Travellers' spatial mobility", Irish Journal of Anthropology, 18/1 (2015)
  • Sindy Joyce, Margaret Kennedy and Amanda Haynes, "Anti-Traveller and Anti-Roma Hate Crime in Ireland", in Critical Perspectives on Hate Crime: An Irish Perspective, edited by A. Haynes, J. Schweppe, and S. Taylor, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

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In 2014 Joyce received the Traveller Pride award for Education. On 4 April 2019 Michael D. Higgins, the President of Ireland, appointed her to his Council of State.