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
Charlotte Dykes
Dynamics of pollution transport in constructed wetlands: identification and quantification of underlying physical mechanisms of solute and solid (microplastic) transport
Katharine Jones
An early warning system for food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks
Tom Green
A hidden record of early animal evolution? Exploring the Cambrian diversity of acritarchs and small carbonaceous fossils
Anna Smith
Hot in the city: The influence of extreme weather events on avian foraging and productivity
Hannah Bird
Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming