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.
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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
Hanqi Zuo
Towards the next generation probabilistic flood forecasting system for the UK
Maria Wagner Jørgensen
Assessing the Global Impact of Island Bird Extinctions
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.
Molly Bridger
The river restoration ‘ecological toolbox’: simultaneously examining biomonitoring indices to guide catchment management techniques.
Shuaizhi Guo
Global change processes in peatlands: a study of the microbiology and biogeochemistry of reactive nitrogen oxides
Shengwei Liu
Microbial lipid cycling in the oceans: an integrated ‘omics’ approach