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
Dylan Sanghera
Low-cost technologies for high-quality air pollution monitoring
Claire Richards
Tracing the source of Brazil nut contamination using advanced mass spectrometric methods
Yuyue Guo
How mega-diverse are Asian rainforests? Development of innovative AI models to understand tropical plant biodiversity
Tijs Kuzee
Forest Resilience and Compound Events (FoRCE) in a changing climate
Anisa Turner
Sensing and transmission of environmental signals across generations