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
Georgie Mountford
Reconstructing 30 million years of past climate change
Raheem Butt
Tetrapod Diversity in the Purbeck Limestone Group of England: Implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous Faunal Turnover
Ebrahim Shabbir Takulla
Consequences of nutrient limitation on lipid remodelling and the ecophysiology of marine phytoplankton
Anna Lazar
Unravelling the global microbiome of crop plants to improve sustainability and food security
Hannah Bird
Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming
Estelle Georgia Darko
Forest Diversity, Dynamics and Resilience in a changing world