CENTA – The Central England NERC Training Alliance

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.

Apply Now FOR CSOS

Applications for our CENTA Science Opportunity Scholarships (CSOS) are now open.

Our partners

Find out more about the various institutions and Universities involved in our training programme.

Study with us

Explore all of our current opportunities and different research areas that you can study with us.

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

Jiacheng (Allen) Gao

Mitigation of Methane Emissions from Peatlands – a Role for Micro-propagated Sphagnum-Associated Methanotrophs

Muhammad Khan

Exploring Cave Sediments as a Novel Paleoclimatic Archive

Rowan Findler

A Machine Learning Approach to Deriving Present Weather

Harriet E. Nuttall

A functional and ecological investigation into Cenozoic mammal evolution

Matthew Allison

New North Atlantic Palaeo-Temperature Reconstruction from Terrestrial Sedimentary Archives: Implications for the Influence of the Icelandic Plume on Oceanic Circulation and Climate.