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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Explore all of our current opportunities and different research areas that you can study with us.
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
Vanessa Hui Fen Neo
Improving thermal stress prediction for coral reefs from observational, modelled and proxy datasets across the Tropics
Nicholas Lugg
High frequency water quality sensor networks for monitoring hot spots and hot moments of urban and rural water pollution in real-time
Jamie MacManaway
Evolution of emerging post-glacial landscapes induced by a changing climate
Shengwei Liu
Microbial lipid cycling in the oceans: an integrated ‘omics’ approach
Mars Poxon
The behaviour of polymer colloids in freshwater flow environment
Anna Smith
Hot in the city: The influence of extreme weather events on avian foraging and productivity