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
Shengwei Liu
Microbial lipid cycling in the oceans: an integrated ‘omics’ approach
Octavia Brayley
Insect responses to climate change in Antarctica and ecosystem consequences
Caroline Johnson
Balancing human and biodiversity needs from agricultural landscapes
Vivienne Gao
Unravelling the environmental and molecular drivers of host-symbiont specificity in cnidarian-algal symbiosis
Katy Ross
Sheep versus sea-lions? Quantifying human impacts on the carbon and greenhouse gas balance of peatlands in the Falkland Islands.
Hannah Bird
Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming