Students who finished their bachelor, master, diploma or doctoral theses with a focus on online research can apply for the GOR Thesis Award. Selected authors will present their findings at the GOR conference and the best ones will be awarded a prize in their respective categories: for the best doctoral thesis and for the best bachelor/master/diploma thesis.

Participants receive a complimentary ticket for GOR. The winner(s) will also receive a prize money of 500 €.

Please find attached the Call for Submissions for the GOR Thesis Award 2026

Winners of the GOR Thesis Award 2025:
BA/MA: Julia Witton (German Institute for Economic Research): “Satisficing in a German Self-Administered Probability-Based Panel Survey.”

PhD: Indira Sen (University of Mannheim): “Identifying, Characterizing, and Mitigating Errors in the Automated Measurement of Social Constructs from Text Data.”

List of former GOR Thesis Award winners.

(at GOR 26), https://www.gor.de)