For her doctoral thesis, Kendrick went to Keele University to study low temperature synthetic routes to inorganic pigments.
[1] Kendrick spent several years in industry, during which she worked at both Fife Batteries and Surion Energy Limited.
Her focus at Sharp was on the development of high energy density devices using cathodes optimized for stable voltage and capacity.
[14] Kendrick is particularly concerned about the implications of supply chain issues associated the loss (or export) of rare and mined materials that are used in modern battery chemistries.
[14] She has pioneered efforts to increase the safety of the recovery processes used to reclaim battery materials, through the use of a brine discharge method using neutral salts that minimizes the rate of corrosion making it possible to recover the separated cathode and anode materials.