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
Mohammad Mahdi Kabiri
Modelling Pollution transport in Constructed Wetlands
Shengwei Liu
Microbial lipid cycling in the oceans: an integrated ‘omics’ approach
Enolà Le Basle
Restoring the Glory: The Conservation Genomics of the Kentish Glory Moth
Sanugi Dassanayake
Investigating the environmental impact of the Athabasca oil sands industry using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry
Katharine Jones
An early warning system for food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks
Rachel Mailes
Exploring conservation co-benefits to biodiversity and carbon storage and sink capacity across forests to improve practice