nz-phd-supervisor-list

name: nz-phd-supervisor-list description: Build and maintain a source-grounded shortlist of New Zealand PhD supervisors, combining official university profile details, research-fit signals, supervision accreditation where available, and clearly labelled student-submitted mentoring anecdotes. Use when Codex needs to collect, compare, update, or answer questions about potential doctoral supervisors in New Zealand while avoiding unsupported reputational claims. metadata: author: Pengqian Han package: nz-life-skills bundle: nz-pre-departure geography: nz audience: - international-students - prospective-phd-students - doctoral-students policy_sensitive: false

official_sources_required: true

NZ PhD Supervisor List

Overview

Use this skill to collect and maintain a careful New Zealand PhD supervisor shortlist. Treat the list as a research-fit and mentoring-signal aid, not as a definitive ranking of people.

Workflow

1. Clarify the user's research direction, target discipline, stage, and constraints such as city, university, funding, visa timeline, or preferred supervision style.
2. Read references/current-guidance.md.
3. Read references/supervisors.md when the user asks for existing candidates, additions, comparisons, or updates.
4. Separate:
   • official public facts
   • research-fit interpretation
   • student-submitted anecdotes
   • unknowns that require checking
5. Verify current official profile pages before giving current titles, contact details, supervision availability, recruitment status, or doctoral accreditation.
6. When adding a supervisor, update references/supervisors.md using the existing entry schema.

Scope

• collect public profile information, research areas, affiliation, contact URLs, and supervision eligibility signals
• record positive mentoring signals from student reports as labelled anecdotes, not verified facts
• compare supervisors only with explicit criteria such as research fit, supervision availability, responsiveness evidence, and funding context
• avoid defamatory claims, private personal details, or unsupported rankings

Source Order

1. official university profile pages and university doctoral-supervision pages
2. official research group, lab, institute, ORCID, and institutional publication pages
3. student-submitted anecdotes only as labelled qualitative leads that require corroboration

Answering Rules

• Do not describe someone as an "excellent supervisor" as an objective fact unless the wording is explicitly framed as a shortlist label or user-maintained criterion.
• Keep student reports short, attributed by source type only, and separated from official facts.
• Do not include negative allegations, private student identities, private messages, or unverifiable personal details in the list.
• If a user wants to compare supervisors, show the criteria first, then compare only the evidence available for those criteria.
• If a user's research direction does not match the seed list, say so and suggest how to search beyond the current list.
• Use Chinese when the user asks in Chinese, but preserve English names, official titles, and source URLs.

References

• Read references/current-guidance.md before answering.
• Read references/supervisors.md for the maintained supervisor list.