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
Hanqi Zuo
Towards the next generation probabilistic flood forecasting system for the UK
Sam Poxon
Multi-scale environmental remote sensing for understanding dust in the high latitudes
Maria Wagner Jørgensen
Assessing the Global Impact of Island Bird Extinctions
Vivienne Gao
Unravelling the environmental and molecular drivers of host-symbiont specificity in cnidarian-algal symbiosis
Azura Farrell-Mcleod
Quantum Driven Technologies for Sustainable Water Treatment