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
Molly Rutter
Real time tracking and monitoring of microplastics in aquatic environments
Raheem Butt
Tetrapod Diversity in the Purbeck Limestone Group of England: Implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous Faunal Turnover
Charlie Theobald
Development and field testing of low cost, high accuracy sensors to enable “Citizen Science” monitoring of UK river systems
Lauren Tuffield
Fertility of subduction and post subduction magmatism associated with porphyry- and epithermal-Cu-Au mineralisation in the Aegean using zircon geochronology and geochemistry
Paul Oluwatimileyin Olatunji
Real-time tracking and monitoring of microplastics in the coastal environment
Jamie Dolling
Promoting wildtype behavioural ecology in sanctuary great apes to aid reintroduction programmes