Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Tom Crick

Professor of Digital Policy at Swansea University and Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sportborn 1981

Wikidata names John Fitch and Marina de Vos as doctoral advisors and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Tom Crick, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Benjamin Blamey

The line above and below4 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.

Education and career6

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