Graduates from MHS – School of Mission and Theology have since the latter half of the 19th century been engaged in documentation and research related to religious and cultural phenomena in the areas they were serving as missionaries. Still, a more systematic training of researchers did not start until the general academic upgrading of the school in the 1970s. MHS’ own PhD programme was accredited in 2002, and today the school has 15-20 researchers in positions as Professors or Associate Professors, and approximately the same number of PhD students.
MHS – School of Mission and Theology has a research profile that reflects the school’s general focus on the global missional calling of the church. In addition to a large number of individual research projects, staff members are directing several multinational and multi-institutional research projects. As far as recruitment of new researchers is concerned, the school emphasizes the need to train female scholars, both for the school itself and for its international partners.
