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
Gregory Eckhartt
Treescapes and the city: Do wooded networks enhance bird movement in urban areas?
Paul Oluwatimileyin Olatunji
Real-time tracking and monitoring of microplastics in the coastal environment
Paul Griffiths
Green roof function and ecosystem service delivery in a UK context
Harshawardhan Borde
Luminescence dating is a tool to interrogate multi-scale coastal landscape response, Cape South Coast, South Africa
Molly Bridger
The river restoration ‘ecological toolbox’: simultaneously examining biomonitoring indices to guide catchment management techniques.