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
Estelle Georgia Darko
Forest Diversity, Dynamics and Resilience in a changing world
Morgan Phillips
How to build a photosynthetic cell: a role for chromosome structure
Symiah Barnett
At-site microplastic monitoring for rivers and marine environments
Mars Poxon
The behaviour of polymer colloids in freshwater flow environment