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Sarah-Maria Thumbeck is honoured with the Doctoral Prize 2025!

Sarah-Maria Thumbeck, member of the Graduate Centre 'Sprachbeherrschung', together with Laima Eicke, whose dissertation was also awarded summa cum laude, has received the 2025 Doctoral Prize for her 2024 dissertation on ‘Text comprehension disorders in aphasia: model-guided diagnostics and strategy-based intervention.’ Congratulations!

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Every two years, the doctoral prize honours excellent dissertations at the University of Erfurt. One thesis from each faculty and from the Max-Weber-Kolleg is nominated for the award, which has previously been awarded top marks. The jury particularly praised the innovative approaches and interdisciplinary nature of the two winning theses. In both cases, it is a cumulative dissertation, i.e. a collective dissertation consisting of several specialist articles, the scientific findings of which are summarised and discussed in an overall document at the end. Both Sarah-Maria Thumbeck and Laima Eicke, whose dissertation is entitled "The International Political Economy of the Energy Transition. Three essays on the interactions of renewable energies, value creation and public policy" are considered by the jury to have produced brilliant work and thus made an important contribution to research in their respective fields.

Sarah-Maria Thumbeck completed her doctorate in the Applied Linguistics group with a focus on psycholinguistics led by Prof. Dr. Frank Domahs, where she is now a research assistant.

The award winners Dr. Laima Eicke and Dr. Sarah-Maria Thumbeck
Prof. Dr. Andreas C. Goldthau, Dr. Laima Eicke, Dr. Sarah-Maria Thumbeck, Prof. Dr. Frank Domahs

Scientific Papers

Thumbeck, S.-M., Schmid, P., Chesneau, S. & Domahs, F. (2023) Efficacy of reading strategies on text-level reading comprehension in people with post-stroke chronic aphasia: A repeated measures study. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 00, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12983

Thumbeck, S.-M., Webster, J., & Domahs, F. (2023). Comprehensive Assessment of Reading in Aphasia (CARA) reading questionnaire-German version. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 1460-6984.12884. doi. org/10.1111/1460-6984.12884

Thumbeck, S.-M., Schmid, P., Chesneau, S., & Domahs, F. (2021). Efficacy of a strategy-based intervention on text-level reading comprehension in persons with aphasia: A study protocol for a repeated measures study. BMJ Open, 11(7), Article 7. doi. org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048126

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