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
Gemma Shaw
Contaminants in saprolite: an overlooked hotspot of environmental concern?
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
Beth Taylor
Thriving Cities, Green Revival: Investigating the multifaceted effects of Miyawaki forests on urban ecology
Osanna Chu
Predicting the loss of functional diversity across islands for plants and birds
Rebecca Coulson
Investigating the Earth’s upper atmosphere using the EISCAT_3D radar
Anna Lazar
Unravelling the global microbiome of crop plants to improve sustainability and food security