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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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
Vivienne Gao
Unravelling the environmental and molecular drivers of host-symbiont specificity in cnidarian-algal symbiosis
Harshawardhan Borde
Luminescence dating is a tool to interrogate multi-scale coastal landscape response, Cape South Coast, South Africa
Annie Dowse
Particles, Pollutants & Microplastics: Particle Tracking for Environmental Solutions
Anna Lazar
Unravelling the global microbiome of crop plants to improve sustainability and food security
Ellen Goddard
Invasive alien carnivorous plants: ecology, function and management of the purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) in Europe