Dr Catherine Baxendale

Envision Training and Placement Officer

Research Overview

I am responsible for providing postgraduate Training leadership, co-ordination and related administrative support for the Doctoral Training and Placement Programme.

Previous roles:

Innovation Fellow within the , where I supported Graduate Researchers working with regional SMEs on low carbon innovation projects. As part of this role, I lead a Working Group between LU, local SMEs and the city council to reduce single use plastics on campus and in the city. I was also the lead organiser for .

Before joining CGE in 2018, I spent 4 years working in Research Engagement, initially on the and later within the central UK Student Recruitment and Outreach team. In this role, I organised and coordinated research engagement between Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é researchers and schools, with the aim of inspiring the next generation of researchers. Having a research background, I can see the importance of engaging school students in research, both for the students and the researchers.

I completed my PhD studying relationships between plant traits and soil microbial communities in hay meadows based in the Plant-Soil Ecology Laboratory in LEC in 2013. This project was part of the pan-European project VITAL working with 7 partners across Europe. After completing my PhD I worked on the ERC funded project as a research support technician.

Selected Publications


Lamarque, P., Tappeiner, U., Baxendale, C., Steinbacher, M., Bardgett, R.D., Szukics, U., Schermer, M., Lavorel, S. 12/2011 In: Regional Environmental Change. 11, 4, p. 791-804. 14 p.
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Grigulis, K., Lavorel, S., Krainer, U., Legay, N., Baxendale, C., Dumont, M., Kastl, E., Arnoldi, C., Bardgett, R.D., Poly, F., Pommier, T., Schloter, M., Tappeiner, U., Bahn, M., Cl¨¦ment, J. 01/2013 In: Journal of Ecology. 101, 1, p. 47-57. 11 p.
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Legay, N., Baxendale, C., Grigulis, K., Krainer, U., Kastl, E., Schloter, M., Bardgett, R.D., Arnoldi, C., Bahn, M., Dumont, M., Poly, F., Pommier, T., Clement, J.C., Lavorel, S. 13/08/2014 In: Annals of Botany. 114, 5, p. 1011-1021. 11 p.
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Baxendale, C.L., Ostle, N.J., Wood, C.M., Oakley, S., Ward, S.E. 09/2016 In: Ecological Indicators. 68, p. 150-156. 7 p.
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Stevens, C.J., Brockett, B., Baxendale, C.L., Birkett, A.J., Brown, C., Cole, A., Gould, I., Griffiths, H., Nicholson, R., Quirk, H.J., Rogers, I., Walker, T., Ward, S.E. 19/09/2016 In: Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education. 1, 19, 9 p.
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Lopez-Sangil, L., George, C., Medina Barcenas, E., Birkett, A.J., Baxendale, C.L., Brechet, L.M., Estradera-Gumbau, E., Sayer, E.J. 09/2017 In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8, 9, p. 1042-1050. 9 p.
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Pommier, T., Amelie, C., Grigulis, K., Lavorel, S., Legay, N., Baxendale, C.L., Bardgett, R.D., Bahn, M., Poly, F., Cl¨¦ment, J. 01/2018 In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 55, 1, p. 49-58. 10 p.
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Baxendale, C., Orwin, K., Poly, F., Pommier, T., Bardgett, R. 10/2014 In: New Phytologist. 204, 2, p. 408-423. 16 p.
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