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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]
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]
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