| 2022 | Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics at the University of Bremen |
| 2021 | Honorary doctorate of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences of the Karl Franzens University of Graz |
| 2020 | Excellence in Reviewing Recognition by the European Accounting Review |
| 2019 | Best TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Conference Paper Award. The article “The Relation between Tax Complexity and Foreign Direct Investments: Evidence Across Countries” by Thomas Hoppe, Deborah Schanz, Susann Sturm, Caren Sureth-Sloane und Johannes Voget has been awarded |
| 2019 | Edmund Outslay Outstanding Paper Award of the University of Illinois. The article "Do Country Risk Factors Attenuate the Effect of Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking?" by Benjamin Osswald and Caren Sureth-Sloane has been awarded at the Doctoral Consortium of the University of Illinois Symposium on Tax Research |
| 2018 | Best Conference Paper Award of the 80th VHB Annual Conference. The article "Measuring Tax Complexity across Countries - A Survey Based Approach" by Thomas Hoppe, Deborah Schanz, Susann Sturm and Caren Sureth-Sloane has been awarded |
| 2017 | WU Award for Outstanding Achievements in Research. The article "Boon or Bane? Advance Tax Rulings as a Measure to Mitigate Tax Uncertainty and Foster Investment" by Markus Diller, Pia Kortebusch, Georg Schneider and Caren Sureth in European Accouting Review, 26 (3), 441-468 has been awarded |
| 2017 | Best Paper Award des Fakultätsforschungsworkshops 2017 from the faculty of Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universität Paderborn. The article "Measuring Tax Complexity across Countries – A Survey Based Approach" by Thomas Hoppe, Deborah Schanz, Susann Sturm and Caren Sureth-Sloane has been awarded |
| 2016 | „Business Research Reviewer of the Year 2015" of the journal Business Research of German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) |
| 2014 | Best master module, award by the student representatives for economics of the University of Paderborn for the module "Umwandlungssteuerrecht" under the administration of Prof. Dr. Caren Sureth-Sloane, performed by Dr. Anja Rickermann, Dr. Alexandra Maßbaum and Dr. Oliver Middendorf in the wintersemester 2013/2014 |
| 2014 | Best Practice Paper Award from the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) for the presentation at the 76th scientific annual conference of VHB for the highest quality combined with the highest practical orientation titled: "Can Tax Rate Increases Foster Investment under Entry and Exit Flexibility? – Insights from an Economic Experiment” by Prof. Dr. René Fahr, Elmar A. Janssen and Prof. Dr. Caren Sureth |
| 2012 | Best Paper Award from the 4th Fakultätsforschungsworkshop of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics of the University Paderborn |
| 2011 | Best Reviewer Award from the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) for remarkable reviews on papers submitted for the 73th Annual Conference of the VHB |
| 2003 | Award for outstanding achievements in teaching from the Paderborner Hochschulkreis |
| 2002 | Best Paper Award for a remarkable international publication by a young researcher from the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) |
| 2000 | Award for doctoral thesis from the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft |
