Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Martina Brandt

Chair for Social Structure and Sociology of Ageing Societies

Phone: 0231 / 755 - 2870

Emil-Figge-Straße 50 | Room 2.435

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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).

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