This led to his being offered the Chair of Zoology, Geology and Mineralogy at Victoria College, (Stellenbosch University from 1918), South Africa.

Despite making his zoology department the largest in South Africa, and being selected to join the Quest expedition to Antarctica as an oceanographer and marine biologist in 1922,[2] Goddard applied for the Chair of Biology at the University of Queensland and was successful, taking up the post in 1923.

In 1935, Goddard acted as spokesman on a visit to the Queensland Premier, William Forgan Smith, and was so persuasive that it was announced in Parliament the next day that a Faculty of Medicine would be established in 1936.

[2] Other programs Goddard worked upon included establishing a Physiotherapy course, which came into being after the Faculty of Medicine was approved.

[10] Glass houses and laboratories for plant pathology, entomology and an insectarium were acquired through grant money and a forestry course commenced in 1924.

Instead he called for the "discovery, elucidation and dissemination of principles that will enable us to envisage with scientific precision the interdependence and inter-reaction of the animal organism or individual and its environment".

The Goddard Biological Sciences building fronting the Great Court of the University of Queensland was named for him.

After his death, the Goddard Memorial Fund was set up, the money from which helped to establish the Heron Island Research Station,[14] then run by the Great Barrier Reef Committee.