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.
Study with us
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
Velislava Ilieva
The influence of sulfur cycling on community diversity in hypersaline environments
Beth Holdsworth
Incorporating modelling and data to understand forest dynamics in a changing world
Vanessa Hui Fen Neo
Improving thermal stress prediction for coral reefs from observational, modelled and proxy datasets across the Tropics
Chris Knight
Using weather patterns and AI to understand crop yield variability and prediction