ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4928-3852

Research interests

• Methods of empirical social research and survey research
• Social inequality across the life course
• Attitudes and values depending on social structure

Research projects

• DEAS: German Ageing Survey (project funding: Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth)
• TaRec – Improved representation of diversity in panel studies: Tailored recruitment strategies for Turkish citizens in Germany

Biography

• Since 2021 Research associate at the German Centre of Gerontology, Berlin
• Winter semester 2021/21 Visiting Professor for Social Sciences, Berlin School of Economics and Law (50%)
• 2017–2021 Research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin
• 2013–2017 Research assistant and survey manager for the German sub-sample of the European Social Survey (ESS), Bielefeld University
• 2014 Doctorate (Dr. phil.), Institute of Sociology, Free University of Berlin
• 2008–2012 Doctoral candidate and research assistant at the Socio-Economic Panel, DIW Berlin
• 2006–2008 Data manager, National Centre for Social Research, London, UK
• 2006 Master of Science in Sociology (Research), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK

Selected Publications

• Grenz, A., Weinhardt, M., Hess, M. et al. (2025). Wie altersfreundlich sind Städte und Gemeinden? Deutsche Version des Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ). Z Gerontol Geriat. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-025-02440-6
• Weinhardt, M. (2023). Älter werden in der Stadt-Altersgerechte Kommunalentwicklung als Querschnittsaufgabe. KommunalPraxis Spezial, 23(4), 211-215.
• Weinhardt, M., & Löhr, K. (2023). Science and Society: Approaches for the Circulation of Knowledge beyond Academia. In Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation (pp. 419-429). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290650-40
• Löhr, K., Weinhardt, M., & Sieber, S. (2020). The “World Café” as a Participatory Method for Collecting Qualitative Data. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920916976
• Schnaudt, C., & Weinhardt, M. (2018). Blaming the Young Misses the Point: Re-assessing Young People's Political Participation over Time Using the 'Identity-equivalence Procedure'. Methods, data, analyses: a journal for quantitative methods and survey methodology (mda), 12(2), 309-333. https://doi.org/10.12758/mda.2017.12
• Weinhardt, M., Jacobebbinghaus, P., Liebig, S. (2017). Linked-Employer-Employee (LEE) Daten in der Organisationsforschung. In: Liebig, S., Matiaske, W., Rosenbohm, S. (eds) Handbuch Empirische Organisationsforschung. Springer Reference Wirtschaft . Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08493-6_12
• Weinhardt, M., Liebig, S. (2015). Teilnahmeverhalten und Stichprobenverzerrung in der deutschen Stichprobe des European Social Survey. In: Schupp, J., Wolf, C. (eds) Nonresponse Bias. Schriftenreihe der ASI - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10459-7_2