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
Vivienne Gao
Unravelling the environmental and molecular drivers of host-symbiont specificity in cnidarian-algal symbiosis
Vanessa Hui Fen Neo
Improving thermal stress prediction for coral reefs from observational, modelled and proxy datasets across the Tropics
Symiah Barnett
At-site microplastic monitoring for rivers and marine environments
Mohammad Mahdi Kabiri
Modelling Pollution transport in Constructed Wetlands
Harshawardhan Borde
Luminescence dating is a tool to interrogate multi-scale coastal landscape response, Cape South Coast, South Africa
Dylan Sanghera
Low-cost technologies for high-quality air pollution monitoring