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
Sanugi Dassanayake
Investigating the environmental impact of the Athabasca oil sands industry using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry
Ebrahim Shabbir Takulla
Consequences of nutrient limitation on lipid remodelling and the ecophysiology of marine phytoplankton
Anna Smith
Hot in the city: The influence of extreme weather events on avian foraging and productivity
Maria Wagner Jørgensen
Assessing the Global Impact of Island Bird Extinctions
Raheem Butt
Tetrapod Diversity in the Purbeck Limestone Group of England: Implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous Faunal Turnover
Gemma Shaw
Contaminants in saprolite: an overlooked hotspot of environmental concern?