Vanessa Kokoschka wins the DGPuK thesis prize

Vanessa Kokoschka, a research assistant at ikum and a PhD student at the PZNW, has won the 2025 Dissertation Prize, worth 500 euros, awarded by the Communication and Media Ethics Specialist Group of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK). With this prize, the professional association honours PhD students who publish academic work and actively participate in academic conferences whilst still working on their PhD studies. Kokoschka applied with a paper from 2025 in which she presented a specific aspect of her ongoing PhD research project.

The award ceremony took place as part of the annual conference of the Media Ethics Network and the DGPuK specialist group at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Munich. The photograph shows Vanessa Kokoschka and the outgoing section chair, PD Dr Clauda Paganini from the University of Innsbruck.