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
Morgan Phillips
How to build a photosynthetic cell: a role for chromosome structure
Hannah Bird
Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming
Rachel Calder
Role of fungal communities in carbon and nutrient cycling in forest soils under elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations
Nathaniel Strong
Impact of climate change on bacteriophage and virome diversity
Susie Goodall
Exploring responses to geohazards in a dynamic risk environment – the role of knowledge, culture and risk perception
Harshawardhan Borde
Luminescence dating is a tool to interrogate multi-scale coastal landscape response, Cape South Coast, South Africa