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
Grace Handy
Impact of CO2 rise on root, leaf, and wood production: The future of tree C allocation
Molly Rutter
Real time tracking and monitoring of microplastics in aquatic environments
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
Nedim Sladić
Rebalancing the scales – using data-driven approaches for advancing hydrological cycle representation in a globally resolved energy balance climate model
Jiacheng (Allen) Gao
Mitigation of Methane Emissions from Peatlands – a Role for Micro-propagated Sphagnum-Associated Methanotrophs