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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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
Alex Hall
Arctic dust from above and below: Constraining the unseen contributions of northern high latitude dust sources
Charlotte Dykes
Dynamics of pollution transport in constructed wetlands: identification and quantification of underlying physical mechanisms of solute and solid (microplastic) transport
Molly Bridger
The river restoration ‘ecological toolbox’: simultaneously examining biomonitoring indices to guide catchment management techniques.
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
Connor Young
Creating just, healthy cities: challenging inequalities in health deprivation from air pollution in minority communities