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
Nicholas Lugg
High frequency water quality sensor networks for monitoring hot spots and hot moments of urban and rural water pollution in real-time
Katy Ross
Sheep versus sea-lions? Quantifying human impacts on the carbon and greenhouse gas balance of peatlands in the Falkland Islands.
Elaine Hooton
Written In Stone: Evaluating Geodiversity as a Natural, Social and Economic Asset
Shengwei Liu
Microbial lipid cycling in the oceans: an integrated ‘omics’ approach
Thomas Wynn
Reducing ammonia emissions is key to meet the UK’s new air quality target