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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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
Velislava Ilieva
The influence of sulfur cycling on community diversity in hypersaline environments
Mohammad Mahdi Kabiri
Modelling Pollution transport in Constructed Wetlands
Harshawardhan Borde
Luminescence dating is a tool to interrogate multi-scale coastal landscape response, Cape South Coast, South Africa
Anna Lazar
Unravelling the global microbiome of crop plants to improve sustainability and food security
Gemma Shaw
Contaminants in saprolite: an overlooked hotspot of environmental concern?
Lauren Tuffield
Fertility of subduction and post subduction magmatism associated with porphyry- and epithermal-Cu-Au mineralisation in the Aegean using zircon geochronology and geochemistry