In the 1940s, Goldney worked with the mathematician Samuel Soal on ESP experiments with Basil Shackleton.
[1][2][3] Goldney was once a member of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research and an associate of Harry Price.
[4] She was a long-standing member of the Society for Psychical Research and worked as secretary from 1949 to 1957.
[5] In the 1950s, she produced a highly critical report with Eric Dingwall and Trevor H. Hall that demolished the claims of any hauntings and suspected Price's involvement with Borley Rectory to be fraudulent.
[6][7] In 1964, she came out against Trevor H. Hall, defending the chemist William Crookes from allegations of misconduct with the medium Florence Cook.