At the ECSR Annual Conference, held at the University of Cologne from September 3–5, 2025, the winners of the ECSR Prize for the Best PhD Thesis of the Year were officially announced.
The 1st prize was awarded to Said Hassan for his thesis “Residential Segregation, School Contexts, and Educational Inequalities”.
Two theses received 2nd prize recognition (in alphabetical order). Kasimir Dederichs, “Who (else) is Involved? – How Voluntary Associations Connect and Separate Us” and Chen-Hao Hsu, “Employment Instability, Family Formation, and Motherhood Penalties: Comparative and Life Course Perspectives”.
The 3rd prize was awarded to Filippo Gioachin for his thesis “Life Chances and Life Courses: Institutional Transformations and the Social Stratification of Contemporary Life Course Inequalities”.
The winner of the first prize receives a cash award of €500. All awarded theses are recognized for their significant contributions to sociological research and to advancing the life course perspective in comparative research.