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
Elaine Hooton
Written In Stone: Evaluating Geodiversity as a Natural, Social and Economic Asset
Jiacheng (Allen) Gao
Mitigation of Methane Emissions from Peatlands – a Role for Micro-propagated Sphagnum-Associated Methanotrophs
Caroline Johnson
Balancing human and biodiversity needs from agricultural landscapes
Vanessa Hui Fen Neo
Improving thermal stress prediction for coral reefs from observational, modelled and proxy datasets across the Tropics
Matteo Battini
Dining after the dinosaurs? Dietary diversity and niche partitioning in Palaeocene mammals