Sindy Joyce
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Dr. Sindy Joyce is an Irish Traveller human rights activist and academic sociologist.{{Cite web|url=https://limerick.academia.edu/SindyJoyce|title = Sindy Joyce | University of Limerick |website=Limerick.academia.edu}} In January 2019 she became the first Irish Traveller to obtain a doctorate from an Irish university.{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/sindy-joyce-is-first-traveller-to-graduate-with-a-phd-in-ireland-1.3759198|newspaper=Irish Times|date=16 January 2019|title=Sindy Joyce is first Traveller to graduate with a PhD in Ireland|author=David Raleigh}} 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.{{Cite web|title=University of Limerick student becomes first Traveller in Ireland to graduate with a PhD|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/dr-sindy-joyce-traveller-phd-limerick-4441437-Jan2019/|date=16 Jan 2019|publisher=TheJournal.ie}}
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.{{Cite web|title=PhD candidate Sindy Joyce and "The Travellers" documentary|url=https://ulsites.ul.ie/sociology/phd-candidate-sindy-joyce-and-travellers-documentary-0|publisher=University of Limerick}} On 4 April 2019 Michael D. Higgins, the President of Ireland, appointed her to his Council of State.{{cite press release |title=President appoints members to Council of State |url=https://president.ie/en/media-library/news-releases/president-appoints-members-to-council-of-state |publisher=Office of the President of Ireland |access-date=4 April 2019 |language=en |date=4 April 2019}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeRvRLWE9N8 Interview with Sindy Joyce] on The Late Late Show, posted on the Late Late Show YouTube channel, 23 September 2016.
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAf1fJarY2I Sindy Joyce, Ireland - Testimony at the 2017 Dublin Platform] on the Front Line Defenders YouTube channel, 28 October 2017.
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Alumni of the University of Limerick
Category:Irish human rights activists
Category:Irish Traveller women
Category:People from County Limerick
Category:Presidential appointees to the Council of State (Ireland)
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