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
Hannah Bird
Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming
Charlotte Dykes
Dynamics of pollution transport in constructed wetlands: identification and quantification of underlying physical mechanisms of solute and solid (microplastic) transport
Morgan Phillips
How to build a photosynthetic cell: a role for chromosome structure
Tijs Kuzee
Forest Resilience and Compound Events (FoRCE) in a changing climate
Alexandria M. Tanciongco
Promoting pyrometallurgical slags as a critical metal resource: Geometallurgy and leaching behaviour with environmentally benign solvents
Charlie Theobald
Development and field testing of low cost, high accuracy sensors to enable “Citizen Science” monitoring of UK river systems