Research and Supervision areas:

Prof J Beukes

• Diaconia
• theology and development
• religion and development
• community development
• eco-diaconia
• spirituality
• African spirituality
• youth spirituality
• eco-spirituality
• youth work
• youth ministry
• children’s ministry

Dr K Makofane

• Unity and Mission
• Power and Mission
• Theological Education and Mission
• Mission and Ecumenism

Prof E Oliver

• South African Church History (mainline churches, youth exiting the church, the bible as problematic text)
• European Church History (Reformers and the Reformation, Politics and the Church, Islam influences)
• Russian Church history (18^th and 19^th century): Herrnhutters
• Early Church History (e.g. Paul, ecumenical Orthodoxy AD 100-400)
• Medieval Church History (e.g. The crusades) 
• Comparative Church History (e.g. Christianity and Babi faith)
• USA Church History (e.g. denominational, mainline, Seventh Day Adventists, Soldiers Bibles)

Dr MB Lephoto

• Catholic Church land ownership
• Catholic Church youth development & disability

Dr T Jentile

• Church History
• Ecumenism
• Political Theology
• Christian Spirituality
• Christian Leadership

Dr N Mlambo

• South African Church History
• South African Land History Among Churches
• Land Justice
• Spatial Justice
• Decolonialism 

Prof F Kobo

• Christian Spirituality
• Womanist Theology
• Black Theology of Liberation
• African Spirituality
• Systematic Theology
• Theological Ethics

Prof LC Mangayi

• Mission and Sustainable community development, Participatory Action Research in Missiology
• Mission and education
• Transformative urban mission (Focus: Homelessness, poverty and marginalisation, HIV & AIDS prevention, and care), Transformative rural mission
• Oiko-missiology and local economic development.

Prof MS Kgatle

• African Pentecostalism

Prof M Madise

• South African Church History

Dr T Shingange

• Mission History
• African Pentecostalism
• Religion, Genders and Sexualities.

Dr SL Kobe

• Missiology
• systematic theology
• African spirituality
• African philosophy
• Church history
• Black theology

Mr TE Ngcobo

• Human Dignity and Human Rights
• Ontology and Metaphysics
• Black and African Theology

Rev MS Maponya

• Reformed Theology
• Missional Ecclesiology