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
Zachary Chu
Biodiversity dynamics along environmental gradients under impending environmental change
Tinotendashe Pori
Rift Valley fever virus at a wildlife livestock interface: how do host and mosquito ecology influence infection dynamics?
Matteo Battini
Dining after the dinosaurs? Dietary diversity and niche partitioning in Palaeocene mammals
Georgie Mountford
Reconstructing 30 million years of past climate change