The IPA PhD Thesis Award Committee is happy to announce the winner of the IPA Thesis Award 2024: Simona Sbranna, from the University of Cologne, with a thesis titled 'Developing linguistic competence in second language learning: Fluency and prosody in Italian learners of German’.

The applications submitted for the first edition of the IPA PhD Thesis Award were of very high quality, and thus the task of the committee was extremely difficult. We congratulate the winner and all the other applicants for the high standards achieved.