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
Osanna Chu
Predicting the loss of functional diversity across islands for plants and birds
William Norriss
Waterfalls, hillslopes & sediment: Understanding critical controls of Landscape Evolution
Beth Holdsworth
Incorporating modelling and data to understand forest dynamics in a changing world
Raheem Butt
Tetrapod Diversity in the Purbeck Limestone Group of England: Implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous Faunal Turnover
Nathaniel Strong
Impact of climate change on bacteriophage and virome diversity
David Whitfield
Working with natural processes to adapt to climate change and to reduce flood risk