RESEARCH CENTRES

ALUSA establishes and hosts reseach centres across scientific and professional fields that will support and further its commitment to advancing new knowledge for and of Africa. 

While the ALUSA Senate does not determine the academic framework or direct their research programmes, ALUSA research centres focus on African questions and problems, engage with a range of discplines in their work, and therefore straddle in various ways the spectrum of inter-, multi- and transdisciplinary study. 

While ALUSA Research Centres govern and manage their own programmes, the Senate holds a standing seat on the relevant governance forums, and therein aims to connect various research teams in a network of disciplines that collaborate towards research that achieves impact for change.

The first centre hosted by ALUSA is the Theological Research Institute in Namibia (TRIN).

TRIN stimulates & facilitates Christian research, building scholarship in theology, and identifies and launches research projects which contribute to the practical ministries of the Churches in Namibia,

The purpose of the institute is to research & apply Christian Theology in the African context in general, and in the Namibian context in particular, so that the Good News of Jesus Christ can reach many people and thereby glorify God.

TRIN is governed by its own Board, which is elected and appointed at a Annual General Meeting, which takes places as part of the annual TRIN Research Symposium. A Reseach Planning Committee (RPC) coordinates programmes, while Research Teams design and run various research initiatives. Membership of research teams are drawn from TRIN member organisations, while the Board approints the RPC as management of the institute. 

Earlier initiatives that TRIN have undertaken include the Namibian Association for Religious Education Providers, the Biblical Studies Curriculum programme and a programme for Ministry Book Publications.