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
Charlotte Dykes
Dynamics of pollution transport in constructed wetlands: identification and quantification of underlying physical mechanisms of solute and solid (microplastic) transport
Rachel Mailes
Exploring conservation co-benefits to biodiversity and carbon storage and sink capacity across forests to improve practice
Willow Neal
Butterflies in The City: Landscape Connectivity and Conservation of Urban Woodland Butterflies
Lavinia Toso
Supporting the Montreal Protocol: monitoring long-lived halogenated species with atmospheric nadir sounders
Molly Bridger
The river restoration ‘ecological toolbox’: simultaneously examining biomonitoring indices to guide catchment management techniques.