About Faculty

Faculty

Academic Council

Cor Eposcopos Dr Patrick Sookhdeo

Executive Director.
Specialty: Religion.

Revd. Dr Prasad D R J Phillips

Deputy Executive Director.
Specialty: Missiology and Practical Theology.

Dr Gerhard van Emmenes

Academic Registrar.
Specialty: Practical Theology and NT Studies

Rev. Prof. Daniel Jeyarej

Academic Dean.
Specialty: World Christianity

Dr Daniel Thejus

Executive Head – Academics and Operations
Specialty: Philosophy and Theology

Programme Leaders

Canon Dr Chris Sugden

Member of the Academic Council and PhD Programme Leader.
Specialty: Theology and Ethics.

Dr Anna Bekele

Member of the Academic Council and MTh Programme Leader.
Specialty: Religion and Culture Studies.

Dr Wenjuan Zhao

Member of the Academic Council and Chinese Programme Leader.
Specialty: Theology and World Christianity.

Dr. I Lanusenla Ao

Member of the Academic Council, MA Programme Leader and Research Tutor for The Shepherd’s Academy.
Research Tutor: Christian Ministry.

Joshua Nurcombe-Pike

Member of the Academic Council and The Shepherd’s Academy Programme Leader.
Speciality: Biblical Studies.

Rev Dr Rollin Grams

PhD Deputy Programme Leader
Specialty: Biblical Studies.

Dr AS Pillarson

MA Christian Studies Programme Coordinator.
Speciality: Theology and Ethics.

Faculty

Dr Anthony Williams

Senior Researcher for Publications and Communications
Speciality: Political Theory

John Lalnuntluanga

Programme Coordinator and Research Tutor for The Shepherd’s Academy.
Speciality: Church History.

Godfrey Sundararaj

Research Tutor for The Shepherd’s Academy, IT and Learning Management System (LMS) Support.
Speciality: Theology and Ethics.

Dr Adekoya Julius

Research Tutor for MTh Programme.
Speciality: Religion and Culture Studies.

Revd Dr Albert S Walters

Research Tutor for MTh Programme.
Speciality: Religion and Culture Studies.

Godwin Adeboye

Research Tutor for The Shepherd’s Academy.
Speciality: Religion and Culture Studies.

Vadivel Victor

Research Tutor for The Shepherd’s Academy.
Speciality: Biblical Studies.

Dr Taimaya Ragui

Research Tutor for The Shepherd’s Academy.
Speciality: Theology and Ethics.

John Jebaraj

Research Tutor for The Shepherd’s Academy.
Tamil Translations.

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Dr Justin Moses

Registrar TSA & NECU Programmes
Specialty: Religions

Dr Grace Al-Zoughbi

Academic Research Tutor and Coordinator for TSA and MTh (Arabic)
Specialty: Middle Eastern Christianity

Michael Arteen

Programme Coordinator and Tutor for TSA and MTh (Arabic)
Specialty: Practical Theology

Samuel Abraham

Research Tutor for The Shepherd’s Academy

Dr Noah Wu

Programme Coordinator & Tutor: Chinese Programme

Dr Zoe Wang

Programme Coordinator & Tutor: Chinese Programme

Dr Yiqian (David) Li

Programme Coordinator & Tutor: Chinese Programme

Administration

Binoy Chacko

IT – Consultant

Andre Lombard

Programme Coordinator: PhD and MTh Programmes

Mark McNaughton

Librarian