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
Shengwei Liu
Microbial lipid cycling in the oceans: an integrated ‘omics’ approach
Matteo Battini
Dining after the dinosaurs? Dietary diversity and niche partitioning in Palaeocene mammals
Shuaizhi Guo
Global change processes in peatlands: a study of the microbiology and biogeochemistry of reactive nitrogen oxides
Nina Kinney
Bio-precipitation or self-cryopreservation: Why does pollen nucleate ice?
Mohammad Mahdi Kabiri
Modelling Pollution transport in Constructed Wetlands
Thomas Wynn
Reducing ammonia emissions is key to meet the UK’s new air quality target