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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Applications for our CENTA Science Opportunity Scholarships (CSOS) are now open.
Our partners
Find out more about the various institutions and Universities involved in our training programme.
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Explore all of our current opportunities and different research areas that you can study with us.
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
Maria Wagner Jørgensen
Assessing the Global Impact of Island Bird Extinctions
Rebecca Coulson
Investigating the Earth’s upper atmosphere using the EISCAT_3D radar
Hanqi Zuo
Towards the next generation probabilistic flood forecasting system for the UK
Muhammad Khan
Exploring Cave Sediments as a Novel Paleoclimatic Archive
Rachel Mailes
Exploring conservation co-benefits to biodiversity and carbon storage and sink capacity across forests to improve practice