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
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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
Mollie Lowrie
Fen Farming Futures: Benefits and drawbacks of sustainable farming on organic soils
Rachel Mailes
Exploring conservation co-benefits to biodiversity and carbon storage and sink capacity across forests to improve practice
Jiacheng (Allen) Gao
Mitigation of Methane Emissions from Peatlands – a Role for Micro-propagated Sphagnum-Associated Methanotrophs
Tijs Kuzee
Forest Resilience and Compound Events (FoRCE) in a changing climate
Alannah Vaughan
Do Microbe-Mineral Interactions Influence Nitrogen Cycle Dynamics?