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
Chris Knight
Using weather patterns and AI to understand crop yield variability and prediction
Georgie Mountford
Reconstructing 30 million years of past climate change
Andy Ward
Homogeneous hydrocarbon oxidation using nitrous oxide as a sustainable feedstock
Vivienne Gao
Unravelling the environmental and molecular drivers of host-symbiont specificity in cnidarian-algal symbiosis
Jenny Shepherd
Using time series satellite imagery to monitor the response of forests to climate change
Lindsey Selleck
Fate of plastics within landfill environments and their role in the mobility of metals