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
Charlie Theobald
Development and field testing of low cost, high accuracy sensors to enable “Citizen Science” monitoring of UK river systems
Osanna Chu
Predicting the loss of functional diversity across islands for plants and birds
Sarah Grace Jongkind
Long-term ecosystem responses with natural woodland restoration on retired grazing land
Enolà Le Basle
Restoring the Glory: The Conservation Genomics of the Kentish Glory Moth
Syed Mustafain Haider
An Ill Wind: Modelling the Impact of the Proposed Newhurst Incinerator on the Urban Health Index (UHI) of the East Midlands
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.