At the ECSR Annual Conference, held at Trinity College Dublin from 15-17 June 2026, the winner and runners-up of the ESR Best Article Award were officially announced.
The ESR Best Article of 2025 Award was presented to Kathryn Christine Beck for her paper “The Later the Better? A Novel Approach to Estimating the Effect of School Starting Age on ADHD and Academic Skills.”
Two articles received runner-up recognition (in alphabetical order):
Maria Rubio-Cabañez for “Stratifying Cities: The Effect of Outdoor Recreation Areas on Children’s Well-being.”
Jan Saarela, Martin Kolk, and Ognjen Obućina for “Kinship, Heritage, and Ethnic Choice: Ethnolinguistic Registration Across Four Generations in Contemporary Finland.”
The committee choosing this years best paper consisted of Prof. Michelle Jackson (Stanford University), Dr. Eleonora Vlach (Associate Editor of the ESR and post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology of Goethe University in Frankfurt) and Prof Jorge Rodríguez-Menés (Member of the ECSR board and Professor of Sociology and Criminology at UPF).