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
Sam Poxon
Multi-scale environmental remote sensing for understanding dust in the high latitudes
Rebecca Coulson
Investigating the Earth’s upper atmosphere using the EISCAT_3D radar
Sarah Tholin
Foliar Gas Exchange and Methanotrophic Activity in the Phyllosphere
Elaine Hooton
Written In Stone: Evaluating Geodiversity as a Natural, Social and Economic Asset
Shardul Pandit
Reconstruction of Indian Monsoon dynamics in response to Pliocene Climate
Nedim Sladić
Rebalancing the scales – using data-driven approaches for advancing hydrological cycle representation in a globally resolved energy balance climate model