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
Matthew Allison
New North Atlantic Palaeo-Temperature Reconstruction from Terrestrial Sedimentary Archives: Implications for the Influence of the Icelandic Plume on Oceanic Circulation and Climate.
Dylan Sanghera
Low-cost technologies for high-quality air pollution monitoring
Harriet E. Nuttall
A functional and ecological investigation into Cenozoic mammal evolution
Hannah Bird
Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming
Ibrahim Yusuf
Structure and Dynamics of the Porcupine Magma-Poor Continental Margin from new Ocean Bottom Seismometer Data