Ipsos announces winners of 2025 Ipsos-CARD Dissertation Proposal Award

New York, NY, February 25, 2025 –Ipsos, one of the world’s leading market research and polling companies, in partnership with the Center for Applied Research in Decision Making (CARD) at Temple University's Fox School of Business, today announced the winners of the 2025 Ipsos-CARD Dissertation Proposal Award: an annual competition that serves to recognize innovation in multi-method behavioral science and decision-making research.

Join us on March 11 for a webinar featuring the top research proposals:

• Winner: Ceylin Petek Ertekin, from the London School of Economics. “The Digital Effect: The Cognitive and Behavioral Impact of Online Interactions on Consumer Decision-Making”
• Runner-up: Yixiang Xu, from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. “How to Bridge the Data Divide: AI Personalization in Data-Scarce Markets.” [Will present at a later date]
• Honorable mention: Ilana Brody, from University of California, Los Angeles. “Autonomy-Enhancing Approaches to Advance Equity: A Descriptive-Prescriptive Paradox.”

The Ipsos-CARD Dissertation Proposal supports young, talented minds conducting scientific research. This competition is open to graduate students worldwide who are in the dissertation stage of their doctoral programs. Submissions are reviewed by a committee of judges, including faculty from the Fox School and industry experts from Ipsos, who evaluate the proposals based on academic and scientific accuracy, methodological rigor, and potential applications for industry and society.

This award is part of the Ipsos Academic Partnership Program, an initiative that enables Ipsos to leverage scientific breakthroughs in data science, consumer neuroscience, behavioral science, and psychology through reciprocal collaborations with top universities.

“By bridging the gap between academia and industry, the Ipsos Academic Partnership Program supports groundbreaking academic work and integrates it into Ipsos’ own research capabilities to drive innovation,” said Davide Baldo, global lead of experimental research at Ipsos and lead of the Ipsos Academic Partnership Program.

"This competition aligns perfectly with our commitment to forward-thinking research that produces practical and impactful solutions for our clients and the industry at large," added Manuel Garcia-Garcia, global lead of science activation, research, and strategy at Ipsos.

The Ipsos-CARD Dissertation Proposal competition is part of a long-running partnership between Ipsos and the CARD lab, built upon a shared interest in multi-method research and a common investment in translating academic work into impactful insights for business and society.

“The dissertation proposal competition is a great way to recognize PhD students who are working on challenging projects in interdisciplinary areas,” said Vinod Venkatraman, associate professor of marketing and director of CARD. "We also wanted to use this competition as a way of motivating students to think about the translational impact of their research."

To register for this year’s webinar, please visit this link.

For further information, please contact:

Christopher Good
Communications Associate
[email protected]

About Ipsos

Ipsos is one of the largest market research and polling companies globally, operating 
in 90 markets and employing nearly 20,000 people.

Our passionately curious research professionals, analysts and scientists have built unique multi-specialist capabilities that provide true understanding and powerful insights into the actions, opinions and motivations of citizens, consumers, patients, customers or employees. Our 75 business solutions are based on primary data from our surveys, social media monitoring, and qualitative or observational techniques.

“Game Changers” – our tagline – summarizes our ambition to help our 5,000 clients navigate with confidence our rapidly changing world.

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About The Fox School df Business

The vision of Temple University’s Fox School of Business is to transform student lives, develop leaders and impact our local and global communities through excellence and innovation in education and research.

The Fox School’s research institutes and centers as well as its full- and part-time faculty provide access to market-leading technologies and foster a collaborative and creative learning environment that offers more than curriculum—it offers an experience. Coupled with its leading student services, the Fox School ensures that its graduates are fully prepared to enter the job market.

The flexibility and responsiveness of our knowledge-creating research faculty allows the school to address the needs of industry and generate courses and programs in emerging fields. As a leader in business research, the Fox School values interdisciplinary approaches and translational research that influence and impact real-world problems. Our research informs an adaptive curriculum, supports innovation in teaching and prepares students for the ever-changing business environment.