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
Ebrahim Shabbir Takulla
Consequences of nutrient limitation on lipid remodelling and the ecophysiology of marine phytoplankton
Tom Green
A hidden record of early animal evolution? Exploring the Cambrian diversity of acritarchs and small carbonaceous fossils
Vanessa Hui Fen Neo
Improving thermal stress prediction for coral reefs from observational, modelled and proxy datasets across the Tropics
Dylan Sanghera
Low-cost technologies for high-quality air pollution monitoring
Lindsey Selleck
Fate of plastics within landfill environments and their role in the mobility of metals
Tanvi Chopra
Rapid Emplacement of the Lower Deccan Traps and its Implication for Late Cretaceous Climate Change