Location & approach

By car

The campus of the TU Dortmund University is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits. All FAIR PIs have offices on the North Campus. FAIR's main offices will be located a bit off the North Campus on Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 17 (parking behind the building).

By train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Verkehrsverbundes Rhein-Ruhr, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund main station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the TU Dortmund University is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits. All FAIR PIs have offices on the North Campus. FAIR's main offices will be located a bit off the North Campus on Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 17 (parking behind the building).

By train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Verkehrsverbundes Rhein-Ruhr, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund main station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

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Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Martina Brandt

Mail: martina.brandttu-dortmundde

Chair for Social Structure and Sociology of Ageing Societies

Phone: 0231 / 755 - 2870

Emil-Figge-Straße 50 | Room 2.435

portrait of Martina Brandt

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Martina Brandt is Professor for Social Structure and Sociology of Aging Societies, Vice Dean of Research at Department 17 and head of the Master's Program on Aging Societies at the TU Dortmund University. As assistant coordinator (research) she was involved in the central coordination of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) until 2014. She researches and teaches in the field of ageing in Europe and is interested in family, health and well-being in the life course, care and social support, social inequality and social policy as well as methods of empirical research on ageing.

Research Interests

Aging
Care
Europe
Quantitative methods
Social inequality

Publications

Selected publications

P. Lazarevič & M. Brandt (2020). Diverging ideas of health? Comparing the basis of health ratings across gender, age, and country. Social Science & Medicine 267: 1-8.

J. Kaschowitz & M. Brandt (2017). Health effects of informal caregiving across Europe: A longitudinal approach, Social Science & Medicine, 173, 72-80.

M. Wagner & M. Brandt (2018). Long-term care provision and the well-being of spousal caregivers: An analysis of 138 European regions.The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 73: e24–e34.

M. Brandt, J. Fietz, S. Hampel, J. Kaschowitz, P. Lazarevic, M. Reichert & V. Wolter (eds.) (2018). Methoden der empirischen Alter(n)sforschung. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.

A. Börsch-Supan, M. Brandt, C. Hunkler, T. Kneip, J. Korbmacher, F. Malter, B. Schaan, S. Stuck & S. Zuber (2013). Data resource profile: the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). International Journal of Epidemiology 42: 992–1001.

More publications

See FAIR publications and publications of the Chair for Social Structure and Sociology of Ageing Societies (full publication list).