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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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
Raheem Butt
Tetrapod Diversity in the Purbeck Limestone Group of England: Implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous Faunal Turnover
Muhammad Khan
Exploring Cave Sediments as a Novel Paleoclimatic Archive
Tijs Kuzee
Forest Resilience and Compound Events (FoRCE) in a changing climate
Nicholas Lugg
High frequency water quality sensor networks for monitoring hot spots and hot moments of urban and rural water pollution in real-time
Abra Ash
Creating Bio-Inspired Synthetic Flowers to Support Standardised Monitoring of Pollinating Insects