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Ellen Heidinger

Ellen Heidinger

Ph.D. Student of the

German Socio-Economic Panel study Research Infrastructure

Research Topics and Working Areas

Ellen Heidinger joined the SOEP team in March 2020 and is a research associate in the project “Longitudinal Aspects of the Interaction between Health and Integration of Refugees in Germany (LARGE)”. Since October 2020, Ellen Heidinger has been a member of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she is pursuing a PhD in sociology. In 2019 she obtained her master's degrees in sociology and empirical social research (M.Sc.) from the University of Cologne and in demography (M.Sc.) from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research interests are migration, social support and integration opportunities. She is a member of SOEP's Junior Research Group SocPsych-MH.

Publications

Refereed essays Web of Science

Overcoming Barriers to Service Access: Refugees’ Professional Support Service Utilization and the Impact of Human and Social Capital

In: Journal of International Migration and Integration 24 (2023), S. 271–312 | Ellen Heidinger

Lectures

Vortrag

Urbanicity Gradient in Professional Support ServiceUtilization among Refugees in Germany: The Mediating Role of Provider Density

Ellen Heidinger, Barbara Stacherl
Cottbus, 29.02.2024 - 01.03.2024
| The Power of WhereSpatial Insights from Survey Data: Joint Spring Meeting of BBSR, BTU & SOEP RegioHub
Vortrag

Distance to Kind in Refugees Support Networks: The Role of Technology and Social Network Services

Ellen Heidinger
Utrecht, Niederlande, 22.06.2023 - 23.06.2023
| Migration and Societal Change: Conference, University Utrecht
Vortrag

Who is Part of the Family? Measuring the Familial Support Network of Refugees in the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees

Ellen Heidinger
Braunschweig, 15.03.2023 - 16.03.2023
| Soziale Netzwerke in Zeiten globaler Krisen: Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Soziologische Netzwerkforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Poster

The Importance of Transnational and Local Family Ties in the Social Support Networks of Refugees

Ellen Heidinger
Berlin, 28.11.2022
| Workshop on the Integration of Refugee Families in Host Countries: Research Advances, Policy Improvements, and Data Challenges
Vortrag

Barriers to Refugees' Utilization of Professional Support Services: Findings from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees

Ellen Heidinger
Nürnberg [Hybrid], 27.05.2021 - 28.05.2021
| Refugee Migration and Integration Revisited - Lessons from the Recent Past: The IAB-ECSR Interdisciplinary Conference [Hybrid]

Research Projects

Research Project

Dynamics of Mental Health of Migrants (DMHM)

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Longitudinal Aspects of the Interaction between Health and Integration of Refugees in Germany (LARGE)

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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