[1] She continued at the University of Strathclyde for her doctoral studies in chemistry, investigating the development of new zinc and zincate complexes for applications in metallation reactions and obtaining her PhD in 2014.

[5] Garden joined the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher in 2014, where her work investigated the synthesis and design of new heterometallic catalysts for applications in copolymerisation reactions between carbon dioxide/epoxide.

[6] In 2016, Garden was awarded the inaugural Christina Miller Fellowship by the University of Edinburgh, where she currently leads a research group in the Department of Chemistry.

[7] Her research interests lie in combining approaches from organometallic chemistry and catalyst design to develop sustainable polymer materials (plastics) that can be effectively recycled and generated from renewable sources.

[14] Garden has won numerous prizes and fellowships for her contributions to the field of homo- and hetero-metallic catalysis and the advancement in developing such catalysts for applications in polymerisation chemistry and sustainable plastics.