Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Deborah Spence

Researcher in New Zealand

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Auckland University of Technology in 2021; Wikidata names Judith Carol Christensen, Julie Boddy, and Paul Spoonley as doctoral advisors, lists 11 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and OpenAlex.

Open the full sheetCiteData

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Theses

Students1

Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Michael Neufeld

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Nicola Power

The line above and below3 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 24 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 23 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.