Joyce Irene Ackroyd, OBE FAHA 宝冠章 (23 November 1918 – 30 August 1991) was an Australian academic, translator, author and editor.

[3] Her doctoral thesis investigated the political career and writings of the Edo period Confucianist Arai Hakuseki.

[citation needed] In 1969, she showed prescience when she introduced a course in standard Chinese, which was not then considered a priority language at Australian universities.

The following year she was awarded the Yamagata Bantō prize by the prefectural government of Osaka for her outstanding contributions to introducing Japanese culture abroad.

[4] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Joyce Ackroyd, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 20+ works in 40+ publications in 3 languages and 500+ library holdings.