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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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
Sanugi Dassanayake
Investigating the environmental impact of the Athabasca oil sands industry using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry
Anna Smith
Hot in the city: The influence of extreme weather events on avian foraging and productivity
Marie Marsden
The stratigraphy and dinosaur palaeontology of the Wealden Group, Isle of Wight
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
Tanvi Chopra
Rapid Emplacement of the Lower Deccan Traps and its Implication for Late Cretaceous Climate Change
Katy Ross
Sheep versus sea-lions? Quantifying human impacts on the carbon and greenhouse gas balance of peatlands in the Falkland Islands.