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
Arron Watson
Monitoring and prediction of biodiversity loss with the use of artificial intelligence
Enolà Le Basle
Restoring the Glory: The Conservation Genomics of the Kentish Glory Moth
Tom Green
A hidden record of early animal evolution? Exploring the Cambrian diversity of acritarchs and small carbonaceous fossils
William Norriss
Waterfalls, hillslopes & sediment: Understanding critical controls of Landscape Evolution
David J. Pereira
ASSESSING BIODIVERSITY CHANGE ON ISLANDS THROUGH TIME: A MULTISCALE APPROACH
Raheem Butt
Tetrapod Diversity in the Purbeck Limestone Group of England: Implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous Faunal Turnover