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
Rebecca Coulson
Investigating the Earth’s upper atmosphere using the EISCAT_3D radar
Osanna Chu
Predicting the loss of functional diversity across islands for plants and birds
Anna Lazar
Unravelling the global microbiome of crop plants to improve sustainability and food security
Dylan Sanghera
Low-cost technologies for high-quality air pollution monitoring
Beth Holdsworth
Incorporating modelling and data to understand forest dynamics in a changing world