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
Marie Marsden
The stratigraphy and dinosaur palaeontology of the Wealden Group, Isle of Wight
Wewerly Fernandes
Microbial ecology of chemically unique British waters
Harriet E. Nuttall
A functional and ecological investigation into Cenozoic mammal evolution
Connor Young
Creating just, healthy cities: challenging inequalities in health deprivation from air pollution in minority communities
Matthew Allison
New North Atlantic Palaeo-Temperature Reconstruction from Terrestrial Sedimentary Archives: Implications for the Influence of the Icelandic Plume on Oceanic Circulation and Climate.
William Norriss
Waterfalls, hillslopes & sediment: Understanding critical controls of Landscape Evolution