| (she/her) |
| University of Leeds |
| Current Position | Professor of Environmental Chemistry |
| [email protected] | |
| Department(s) | School of Geography, Department of Environment |
| ECR | No |
| YES.DTN Core Themes | Dynamic Earth, Natural Hazards & Earth Processes |
| Profile(s) | Laura Carter (0000-0002-1146-7920) – ORCID |
Key Research Interests
- Fate and effects of emerging contaminants in the environment
- Contribution of environmental pollution to the development of antimicrobial resistance
- Sustainable agricultural practices and the inadvertent release of environmental contaminants into soil-plant systems
Recent Key Papers
- Nightingale, J., Trapp, S., Garduño-Jiménez, A., & Carter, L.J (2025). A framework to assess pharmaceutical accumulation in crops: From wastewater irrigation to consumption. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 493, 138297. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.138297
- Carter, LJ., Adams, B., Berman, T., Cohen, N., Cytryn, E., Elder, F. C. T., Garduño-Jiménez, A.-L., Greenwald, D., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Korach-Rechtman, H., Lahive, E., Martin, I., Ben Mordechay, E., Murray, A. K., Murray, L. M., Nightingale, J., Radian, A., Rubin, A. E., Sallach, B., Sela-Donenfeld, D., Skilbeck, O., Sleight, H., Stanton, T., Zucker, I., & Chefetz, B. (2025). Co-contaminant risks in water reuse and biosolids application for agriculture. Environmental Pollution, 2025, 126219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126219
- Elder FCT, O’Neill AJ, Collins LM, Carter LJ (2023) A framework to assess the terrestrial risk of antibiotic resistance from antibiotics in slurry or manure amended soils Environmental Science: Advances, 2 (5), pp. 780 – 794 DOI: 10.1039/d2va00306f