Thesis Awards presented
The Executive Board of Tilburg University has presented this year’s annual Thesis Awards to Sergey Kramp (Best Master’s Thesis), Astrid Fokkema (Best Research Master’s thesis), and Paul Lodder (Best PhD Thesis).
Sergey Kramp won the Best Master’s Thesis Award. He completed his thesis titled Native Language Identification with Big Bird Embeddings at the Tilburg School of Digital Humanities and Digital Sciences. The jury found that “Sergey Kramp formulated a clear problem and is highly relevant. His research contributes to open science and is readily usable by other researchers.”
Astrid Fokkema won the Best Research Master’s Thesis Award for her thesis titled Allow Me to Mansplain: Assessing and collecting empirical evidence for biases in communication between men and women for the Research Master’s program of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. The jury found that “Astrid Fokkema formulated a relevant research question and with her thesis makes an important empirical contribution. Her sense of humor, a rare feature of theses, is also highly appreciated.”
Paul Lodder of the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences won the Best PhD Thesis Award for his PhD thesis on medical psychometrics. To quote the jury report, “Paul Lodder’s research is interdisciplinary and its findings, which have theoretical, medical, and methodological relevance, have resulted in leading publications. Lodder knows how to meaningfully connect theory and practice.”
All winners
Master’s theses
- #1 (€4,000): Sergey Kramp - Native Language Identification with Big Bird Embeddings
- #2 (€2,000): Iris Graumans - Waarderingen binnen het ondernemingsrecht: een onderzoek naar de discretionaire ruimte van de rechter (Assessment in corporate law: exploring the courts’ discretionary powers)
- #3 (€1,000): Valentina Mendoza Quintero - On Abandoned Dreams, High-Order Self-Worth Beliefs and Domestic Work: An Empirical Analysis from Field Surveys in Cartagena, Colombia
PhD theses
- #1 (€4,000): Paul Lodder - Medical Psychometrics: A psychometric evaluation of Type D personality and its predictive value in medical research
- #2 (€2,000): Christian Peters – The Microfoundations of Audit Quality
- #3 (€1,000): Gijs van Maanen - From communicating to distributing: studying open government and open data in the Netherlands
Research Master’s thesis
- €4,000: Astrid Fokkema - Allow Me to Mansplain: Assessing and collecting empirical evidence for biases in communication between men and women