Sindy Joyce


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.

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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.