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
Rachel Mailes
Exploring conservation co-benefits to biodiversity and carbon storage and sink capacity across forests to improve practice
Dylan Sanghera
Low-cost technologies for high-quality air pollution monitoring
Tinotendashe Pori
Rift Valley fever virus at a wildlife livestock interface: how do host and mosquito ecology influence infection dynamics?
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
Alisha Higgins
The role of freshwater connectivity in facilitating the range expansion of invertebrate invasive species