Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant
Professor | Graduate Chair
She/Her
PhD (McGill); MA (Dalhousie); BA (Guelph)
Political Studies
Canadian Politics, Gender and Politics
Professor | Graduate Chair
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Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Canadian and comparative politics; elections and voting behaviour; gender and political behaviour; women candidates and legislators; media and politics; representation
Supervisory Interests
Dr. Goodyear-Grant is interested in supervising students and postdoctoral scholars working on Canadian and comparative projects focused on gender and representation; gender and political communications; women candidates and legislators, particularly as it relates to their access to electoral office and/or substantive representation of women/gender; and various other related topics in Canadian and comparative politics. Please see Dr. Goodyear-Grant鈥檚 CV for a list of past students and their graduate projects for examples of past supervisions.
Brief Biography
Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant (Ph.D. McGill) is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen鈥檚 University, and the Director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA). Her research focuses on Canadian politics, with particular interests in electoral politics, voting behaviour, and public opinion; news media; the political representation of women; and the conceptualization and measurement of sex and gender. She is the author of (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013), which won the 2016 Pierre Savard Award from the International Council of Canadian Studies, and was one of three books shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association鈥檚 2014 Donald Smiley Prize.
In , Goodyear-Grant presents compelling evidence that gender structures certain aspects of news coverage of candidates and politicians 鈥 not how much they鈥檙e covered, but certainly how they鈥檙e covered 鈥 and demonstrates that these differences can impact negatively on female candidates and leaders鈥 electoral prospects and political careers, contributing to the persistent under-representation of women at all levels of politics. Goodyear-Grant has also published work on measuring sex and gender in political research, attitudes toward democracy and political representation, attitudes toward the use of referenda, and so on, all part of a larger research agenda that concentrates on representation and political behaviour published in venues such as Political Behavior, Politics & Gender, Electoral Studies, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, and the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
In the Department of Political Studies at Queen鈥檚, Goodyear-Grant teaches courses on campaigns and elections; women, gender, and politics; and Canadian politics more generally.
Teaching
For detailed information about political studies courses and instructors, please refer to the Undergraduate and Graduate pages.
Service (2024/2025)
- Adjunct Appointments Committee
- Appointments Committee
- Departmental Committee
- Field Convenors Committee (Chair)
- Graduate Committee (Chair)