{"id":3298,"date":"2026-01-16T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:03:40","slug":"laureate-of-the-cped-2025-thesis-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/laureate-du-prix-de-these-2025-de-la-cped\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of the CPED 2025 Thesis Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to <strong>B\u00e9atrice STERNBERG<\/strong>, winner of the 2025 Thesis Prize from CPED, for her thesis in social psychology at Paris Nanterre University, titled \u201c<strong>Sociocognitive Processes Involved in Intersectionality-Based Invisibility: The Role of Perceived Identity Incongruence<\/strong>.Drawing on the case of gay men of North African origin in France, B\u00e9atrice STERNBERG demonstrates that individuals belonging to multiple stigmatized groups are more likely to be rendered invisible when their identities are perceived as incongruous with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was selected from about forty applications, coming from <strong>26 member institutions of the CPED<\/strong>, and from <strong>a wide range of disciplines<\/strong><sup data-fn=\"5ef5836d-2d2b-4543-973e-ee56e0e08eb5\" class=\"fn\"><a id=\"5ef5836d-2d2b-4543-973e-ee56e0e08eb5-link\" href=\"#5ef5836d-2d2b-4543-973e-ee56e0e08eb5\">1<\/a><\/sup>, ranging from humanities and social sciences to fundamental sciences. The jury, composed of equality and diversity officers, highlighted the excellence of B\u00e9atrice STERNBERG's work as well as the interest and usefulness of her analysis of the concept of intersectionality for the work of equality and diversity missions in higher education and research institutions. The theoretical and methodological perspectives open up a particularly interesting field of reflection that echoes the issue of siloed EDI policies and the value of cross-cutting or intersectional approaches. Furthermore, the perceived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the \u20ac1,500 prize, the winner will be invited to <strong>present his thesis at the next CPED conference in 2026<\/strong> ! The award of this thesis prize is part of CPED's commitment to supporting research into gender, equality and diversity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Prix-de-these-2025-Linkedin-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3299\" style=\"width:369px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For this second edition, the jury of the thesis prize was composed of :&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Catherine Minet-Letalle, former Vice President for Equality, Anti-Discrimination and VSS and Professor of Private Law at the Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d'Opale ;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doroth\u00e9e Gu\u00e9rin, Vice-Chairwoman for Gender Equality and the Fight against SGBV and Professor of Private Law at the Universit\u00e9 de Bretagne Occidentale - Brest;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pascal Tisserant, EDI Vice-Chairman and Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine - Metz;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fran\u00e7oise Le Fichant, Vice President Social Responsibility and lecturer in private law at the University of Nantes;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>V\u00e9ronique Van De Bor, Vice-President, Social Policy, Equality and Diversity, and researcher in developmental biology at the Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d'Azur ;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clotilde Coron, EDI Vice-President and Professor of Management Sciences at Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Camille Fauth, Vice President for Equality, Parity, Diversity and the Fight against Discrimination at the University of Strasbourg; ;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>St\u00e9phanie Geneix-Rabault, in charge of the \u00abEquality - Diversity\u00bb project at the University of New Caledonia; ;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Julie Malet-Vigneaux, Project Manager for Equality, Secularism, and the Fight Against Discrimination, Harassment, and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Student Life at the University of the Littoral C\u00f4te d\u2019Opale; ;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophie Louargant, Vice-President of Equality, Parity, and Non-discrimination at the University of Grenoble Alpes; ;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christine Morin-Messabel, Vice-President for Discrimination, Equality, VSS and Social Action at Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2; ;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nicolas Bourbon, Vice-President of Equality, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination at Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre; ;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Annabelle Boutet-Di\u00e9ye, Co-lead, Gender Equality Mission at IMT Atlantique (Brest campus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Her thesis abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe objective of this research work was to examine <em>when <\/em>and <em>how <\/em>people belonging to several stigmatized groups are likely to experience a specific form of discrimination, known as intersectional invisibility. Following a systematic review of the literature (Chapter 2), we tested the role of a plausible yet little-examined moderator: perceived incongruence between the identities of targets. Taking the example of gay men of North African origin in France, we argued that people belonging to multiple stigmatized groups are more likely to be invisibilized when their identities are perceived as incongruent with each other. In two sets of empirical studies, we investigated how this invisibility could constitute both a \u00abdisadvantage\u00bb, in terms of memorization processes, and a relative \u00abadvantage\u00bb, in terms of intergroup bias. When their identities were perceived as incongruent with each other, the speeches of gay men of North African origin were less well memorized than those of other targets, this being possibly explained by the hypervisibility of their identities, to the detriment of the memorization of their speeches (Chapter 3). They were, however, evaluated as less threatening than heterosexual men of North African origin, partly because they were perceived as less typical examples of the North African male group (Chapter 4). Overall, these results confirm our thesis that perceived incongruence between identities plays a role in the invisibility of people belonging to multiple stigmatized groups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"5ef5836d-2d2b-4543-973e-ee56e0e08eb5\">\u00a0Gender studies; management sciences; social, clinical, and developmental psychology; cognitive sciences; immunology; education and training sciences; history; sociology, digital sociology; public law; ethnology; physics; performing arts; philosophy and epistemology; geography; virology; language sciences, linguistics, and language didactics; economics; information and communication sciences; anthropology.<br> <a href=\"#5ef5836d-2d2b-4543-973e-ee56e0e08eb5-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00e9licitations \u00e0 B\u00e9atrice STERNBERG, laur\u00e9ate du Prix de th\u00e8se 2025 de la CPED, pour sa th\u00e8se en psychologie sociale \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre, intitul\u00e9e \u201cProcessus sociocognitifs impliqu\u00e9s dans l\u2019invisibilit\u00e9 intersectionnelle : le r\u00f4le de l\u2019incongruence per\u00e7ue entre les identit\u00e9s.\u201d En s\u2019appuyant sur le cas des hommes gays d\u2019origine maghr\u00e9bine en France, B\u00e9atrice STERNBERG, d\u00e9montre que&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"\u00a0Etudes sur le genre ; sciences de gestion ; psychologie sociale, clinique, du d\u00e9veloppement ; sciences cognitives ; immunologie ; sciences de l\u2019\u00e9ducation et de la formation ; histoire ; sociologie, du num\u00e9rique ; droit public ; ethnologie ; physique ; arts du spectacle ; philosophie et \u00e9pist\u00e9mologie ; g\u00e9ographie ; virologie ; sciences du langage, linguistique et didactique des langues ; \u00e9conomie ; sciences de l'information et de la communication ; anthropologie.<br>\",\"id\":\"5ef5836d-2d2b-4543-973e-ee56e0e08eb5\"}]"},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[228,96,223],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualites","category-recherche","tag-prix","tag-recherche","tag-these"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}