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
Brandon Shaw
Investigating how fungal endophytes assist the nutritional ecology of carnivorous pitcher plants Sarracenia purpurea.
Andy Ward
Homogeneous hydrocarbon oxidation using nitrous oxide as a sustainable feedstock
Mars Poxon
The behaviour of polymer colloids in freshwater flow environment
Amy Gray
Reconstructing Svalbard ice-mass evolution and dynamics since the last glaciation
Emily Swaby
The effect of the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) extreme environmental change on insects.