CENTA – The Central England NERC Training Alliance

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.

Study with us

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

Jia Le Tan

Inference of ecological and environmental models

Anna Smith

Hot in the city: The influence of extreme weather events on avian foraging and productivity

Ebrahim Shabbir Takulla

Consequences of nutrient limitation on lipid remodelling and the ecophysiology of marine phytoplankton

Dylan Sanghera

Low-cost technologies for high-quality air pollution monitoring

Matthew Allison

New North Atlantic Palaeo-Temperature Reconstruction from Terrestrial Sedimentary Archives: Implications for the Influence of the Icelandic Plume on Oceanic Circulation and Climate.