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
Georgie Mountford
Reconstructing 30 million years of past climate change
Zak Derler
Investigating extreme wildfire phenomena and fire-weather interactions in a changing climate
Harriet E. Nuttall
A functional and ecological investigation into Cenozoic mammal evolution
Tijs Kuzee
Forest Resilience and Compound Events (FoRCE) in a changing climate
Shardul Pandit
Reconstruction of Indian Monsoon dynamics in response to Pliocene Climate