Goodyear-Grant holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Guelph, a master's degree from Dalhousie University, and a doctorate from McGill University.[1]
Goodyear-Grant serves as director of both the Canadian Opinion Research Archive and the Queen's Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and as an associate professor at Queen's University.[2] She has taught at Queen's University since 2006.[3]
Goodyear-Grant was awarded by Queen's University the 2020 Faculty of Arts and Science Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.[3] Her book Gendered News: Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada won the 2016 Pierre Savard Award from the International Council of Canadian Studies.[2][4] It was also one of the three books shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association's Donald Smiley Prize in 2014.[2]
The main areas of study of Goodyear-Grant include Canadian politics, elections and voting behaviour, gender in politics, women political candidates and legislators, politics and the media, and representation.[1]
Goodyear-Grant has contributed to the news site The Conversation on topics including the role of women voters in the 2021 Canadian federal election,[5] the influence of sex and gender on how Canadians vote (with Amanda Bittner),[6] the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women's candidacy,[7] and the weak influence of childcare proposals on Canadian voting attitudes.[8] She is also a contributor to Policy Options, the digital magazine of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, focusing on topics relating to gender, race, and the COVID-19 pandemic (with Allison Harell and Laura Stephenson),[9] gender in the aftermath of the 2015 Canadian federal election,[10] and the framing of gender and childcare policies (with Rebecca Wallace).[11] She has been cited and quoted by CBC News on topics relating to gender in Canadian politics.[12] She has also provided analysis of Canadian elections to local newspapers, such as the Abbotsford News.[13]
