The instrument establishing the Centre enables it to draw its Research Fellows from various disciplines both from within and outside the University. The Research Centre has no formal academic teaching programmes. Its Research Fellows discharge their teaching obligations as members of faculty of their various academic departments, while its Junior Research Fellows are required to be registered Ph.D. candidates from various academic departments. The Research Staff relate at the Centre to execute the Centre's research programmes under the overall direction of the Centre's Director, assisted by specific Research programme Coordinators. The in-house research staff is currently made up of the following: