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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Applications for our CENTA Science Opportunity Scholarships (CSOS) are now open.
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Explore all of our current opportunities and different research areas that you can study with us.
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
Imogen Mansfield
Indicators of Air Pollution-derived Stress in Birds
Zak Derler
Investigating extreme wildfire phenomena and fire-weather interactions in a changing climate
Yuyue Guo
How mega-diverse are Asian rainforests? Development of innovative AI models to understand tropical plant biodiversity
Rachel Mailes
Exploring conservation co-benefits to biodiversity and carbon storage and sink capacity across forests to improve practice
Shengwei Liu
Microbial lipid cycling in the oceans: an integrated ‘omics’ approach
David J. Pereira
ASSESSING BIODIVERSITY CHANGE ON ISLANDS THROUGH TIME: A MULTISCALE APPROACH