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
Lauren Tuffield
Fertility of subduction and post subduction magmatism associated with porphyry- and epithermal-Cu-Au mineralisation in the Aegean using zircon geochronology and geochemistry
Zak Derler
Investigating extreme wildfire phenomena and fire-weather interactions in a changing climate
Enolà Le Basle
Restoring the Glory: The Conservation Genomics of the Kentish Glory Moth
Thomas Wynn
Reducing ammonia emissions is key to meet the UK’s new air quality target
Rachel Mailes
Exploring conservation co-benefits to biodiversity and carbon storage and sink capacity across forests to improve practice