Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Ian Shirley

New Zealand's first professor of public policy1940 to 2019

Supervised 4 doctoral students and 3 master's students at Auckland University of Technology between 2010 and 2016; Wikidata lists 8 doctoral students and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 2 other registers.

Ian Shirley, pictured

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Theses

Students7

Students on Wikidata8

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

The line above and below

    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 39 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 35 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career3

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