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
Katharine Jones
An early warning system for food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks
Charlie Patel
Quantifying the hidden diversity and conservation value of sediment detention ponds in relation to agri-environment schemes (AES)
Alex Hall
Arctic dust from above and below: Constraining the unseen contributions of northern high latitude dust sources
Katie Baumer
Relating Changes in Melt Genesis to Dynamic Conditions of the Demise of a Continental Arc; Antarctic Peninsula Arc
Sarah Fairbrother
Rivers of the dammed: how should beavers fit and function in UK landscapes?