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
Alexandria M. Tanciongco
Promoting pyrometallurgical slags as a critical metal resource: Geometallurgy and leaching behaviour with environmentally benign solvents
Katy Ross
Sheep versus sea-lions? Quantifying human impacts on the carbon and greenhouse gas balance of peatlands in the Falkland Islands.
Marie Marsden
The stratigraphy and dinosaur palaeontology of the Wealden Group, Isle of Wight
William Norriss
Waterfalls, hillslopes & sediment: Understanding critical controls of Landscape Evolution
Sam Poxon
Multi-scale environmental remote sensing for understanding dust in the high latitudes
Thomas Wynn
Reducing ammonia emissions is key to meet the UK’s new air quality target