The centre is currently directed by Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood.
[5] The centre promotes historical, theological, and social scientific research in the field of World Christianity – broadly speaking, Christianity in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and eastern Europe, as well as diasporic forms of non-Western Christianity emerging in contexts such as Western Europe and North America.
Closely related to the centre is the peer-reviewed academic journal Studies in World Christianity, published three times a year.
[6] The centre is one of the main sponsors of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity,[7] and maintains its own research archive.
[8] Some notable books produced by scholars affiliated with the Centre include: As part of the School of Divinity, it offers a one-year MTh teaching program and a PhD research degree producing, by the first decade of the twenty first century, 129 MTh and 65 PhD theses.