The Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA), is a consortium of research-intensive Universities and research institutes that are working together to provide excellence in doctoral research training in Earth and Environmental Sciences.
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Our partners
Find out more about the various institutions and Universities involved in our training programme.
Training schedule
Our training includes lots of student support throughout and also a residential in the first year to help you prepare.
Our student stories

Yuyue Guo
How mega-diverse are Asian rainforests? Development of innovative AI models to understand tropical plant biodiversity

Georgie Mountford
Reconstructing 30 million years of past climate change

Mollie Lowrie
Fen Farming Futures: Benefits and drawbacks of sustainable farming on organic soils

Beth Holdsworth
Incorporating modelling and data to understand forest dynamics in a changing world

Tom Green
A hidden record of early animal evolution? Exploring the Cambrian diversity of acritarchs and small carbonaceous fossils

Shengwei Liu
Microbial lipid cycling in the oceans: an integrated ‘omics’ approach