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Sindy Joyce

Dr. Sindy Joyce is an Irish Traveller human rights activist and academic sociologist.[1] In January 2019 she became the first Irish Traveller to obtain a doctorate from an Irish university.[2] Her doctoral thesis funded by the Irish Research Council, "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.[3]

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.

Awards

In 2014 Joyce received a Traveller Pride Award for Education.[4] On 4 April 2019 Michael D. Higgins, the President of Ireland, appointed her to his Council of State.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Sindy Joyce | University of Limerick". Limerick.academia.edu.
  2. ^ David Raleigh (16 January 2019). "Sindy Joyce is first Traveller to graduate with a PhD in Ireland". Irish Times.
  3. ^ "University of Limerick student becomes first Traveller in Ireland to graduate with a PhD". TheJournal.ie. 16 January 2019.
  4. ^ "PhD candidate Sindy Joyce and "The Travellers" documentary". University of Limerick.
  5. ^ "President appoints members to Council of State" (Press release). Office of the President of Ireland. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.


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