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
Lavinia Toso
Supporting the Montreal Protocol: monitoring long-lived halogenated species with atmospheric nadir sounders
Alex Hall
Arctic dust from above and below: Constraining the unseen contributions of northern high latitude dust sources
Emily Swaby
The effect of the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) extreme environmental change on insects.
Vivienne Gao
Unravelling the environmental and molecular drivers of host-symbiont specificity in cnidarian-algal symbiosis
Matteo Battini
Dining after the dinosaurs? Dietary diversity and niche partitioning in Palaeocene mammals
Osanna Chu
Predicting the loss of functional diversity across islands for plants and birds