Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Nigel Osborne

British composerborn 1948

Supervised 15 doctoral students at The University of Edinburgh; Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Nigel Osborne, pictured

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

Students15

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught4

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

    Derek Williams

    born 1952
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Annette Kruisbrink

    born 1958
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Rebecca Saunders

    born 1967
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Dimitrios Skyllas

    born 1987

The line above and below

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 16 people: 15 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career2

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