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
William Norriss
Waterfalls, hillslopes & sediment: Understanding critical controls of Landscape Evolution
Grace Handy
Impact of CO2 rise on root, leaf, and wood production: The future of tree C allocation
Symiah Barnett
At-site microplastic monitoring for rivers and marine environments
Katharine Jones
An early warning system for food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks
Marie Marsden
The stratigraphy and dinosaur palaeontology of the Wealden Group, Isle of Wight
Katie Baumer
Relating Changes in Melt Genesis to Dynamic Conditions of the Demise of a Continental Arc; Antarctic Peninsula Arc