1. Joyce Ackroyd was a scholar of Japanese language and literature.
11 Facts About Joyce Ackroyd
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Joyce Ackroyd graduated with honours in English and history and a major in mathematics.
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Joyce Ackroyd studied Japanese part-time at the University of Sydney while teaching mathematics at a Sydney boys' school.
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Joyce Ackroyd lectured in Japanese at the University of Sydney from 1944 to 1947, and then went to the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in Japanese Studies in 1951.
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Joyce Ackroyd was a member of the faculty of the Australian National University in Canberra until the mid-1960s.
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Joyce Ackroyd moved to Brisbane in 1965, when she was appointed the foundation professor of the new Department of Japanese Language and Literature.
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Joyce Ackroyd helped to develop the University of Queensland's School of Japanese during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Joyce Ackroyd was influential in building the program into one of Australia's main centres for Japanese studies.
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Joyce Ackroyd was awarded the Order of the British Empire, Officer in 1982.
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Joyce Ackroyd became the first woman to have her name attached to a building at the University of Queensland, in 1990.
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Joyce Ackroyd was survived by her husband, Frank Warren Speed.