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
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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
Imogen Mansfield
Indicators of Air Pollution-derived Stress in Birds
Charlie Patel
Quantifying the hidden diversity and conservation value of sediment detention ponds in relation to agri-environment schemes (AES)
Katharine Jones
An early warning system for food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks
Matteo Battini
Dining after the dinosaurs? Dietary diversity and niche partitioning in Palaeocene mammals
Nina Kinney
Bio-precipitation or self-cryopreservation: Why does pollen nucleate ice?
Hannah Bird
Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming