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
Vivienne Gao
Unravelling the environmental and molecular drivers of host-symbiont specificity in cnidarian-algal symbiosis
Nina Kinney
Bio-precipitation or self-cryopreservation: Why does pollen nucleate ice?
Sarah Grace Jongkind
Long-term ecosystem responses with natural woodland restoration on retired grazing land
Azura Farrell-Mcleod
Quantum Driven Technologies for Sustainable Water Treatment
Jenny Shepherd
Using time series satellite imagery to monitor the response of forests to climate change
Kaila Desai
Decadal Variability and Predictability of the Benguela Current System and Its Regional Impacts