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
Caroline Johnson
Balancing human and biodiversity needs from agricultural landscapes
Tijs Kuzee
Forest Resilience and Compound Events (FoRCE) in a changing climate
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
Sanugi Dassanayake
Investigating the environmental impact of the Athabasca oil sands industry using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry
Tom Green
A hidden record of early animal evolution? Exploring the Cambrian diversity of acritarchs and small carbonaceous fossils
Lydia Hemmings
Assessing the viability of magnetic susceptibility as an exploration tool in granites