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Jane Goodyer is a British-New Zealand engineer and academic, appointed as the Dean of the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University in Canada since 2018. She was previously the Head of the School at the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology at Massey University. She is known as a champion of the work-integrated learning model within higher education.

Early life and education
Goodyer received her Bachelor of Engineering degree in production engineering from Coventry Polytechnic in the U.K. She later completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) manufacturing systems design engineering from Coventry University as well. Her research topics originally focused within manufacturing engineering.

Career
Following her PhD, Goodyer was an appointed lecturer at the Coventry University and was involved in their cutting-edge research centre within the automative industry, looking at new joining technologies for body-in-white manufacture. She then was appointed as a professor at Massey University in New Zealand in 2006 where she went on to hold a number of roles within the university. In 2008, she became the Programme Director of engineering programmes at Massey University and in 2017 became the head of school for their School of Engineering and Advanced Technology.

Throughout her career, Goodyer has championed the advancement of women in engineering and created an outreach program to provide engineering-related community service activities to encourage school girls in New Zealand between the ages of 10 to 13 to pursue a career in engineering.

Selected publications

 * Goodyer, Jane, and Ishani B Soysa. “A New Zealand National Outreach Program – Inspiring Young Girls in Humanitarian Engineering.” International journal for service learning in engineering 12.2 (2017): 1–14. doi:10.24908/ijsle.v12i2.7551.
 * Grigg, Nigel P, Jane E Goodyer, and Thomas G Frater. “Sustaining Lean in SMEs: Key Findings from a 10-Year Study Involving New Zealand Manufacturers.” Total quality management & business excellence 31.5-6 (2020): 609–622, doi:10.1080/14783363.2018.1436964.