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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Applications for our CENTA Science Opportunity Scholarships (CSOS) are now open.
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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
Vivienne Gao
Unravelling the environmental and molecular drivers of host-symbiont specificity in cnidarian-algal symbiosis
Anna Smith
Hot in the city: The influence of extreme weather events on avian foraging and productivity
Elaine Hooton
Written In Stone: Evaluating Geodiversity as a Natural, Social and Economic Asset
Issy Finlay
Dusty Rivers: quantifying fluvial flooding controls on aeolian activity
Gemma Shaw
Contaminants in saprolite: an overlooked hotspot of environmental concern?
Shardul Pandit
Reconstruction of Indian Monsoon dynamics in response to Pliocene Climate