Florian Heinritz

Center for Study Management | Data Protection in Surveys

Vita

12/2024 – Today
Head of Working Unit "Data Protection in Surveys" in the Center for Study Management at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg, Germany
01/2022 – Today
Doctoral student at the Graduate School of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg, Germany
01/2022 – 11/2024
Research Assistant in the study "Educational Trajectories of Refugee Children and Adolescents (BildungswegeFlucht)" at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg, Germany (until 02/2022 in the Center for Study Management, since 03/2022 in the Working Unit Migration)
02/2021 – 02/2022
Research Assistant at the Chair of Sociology, in particular Social Research Methods, University of Hamburg, Germany
07/2020 – 12/2021
Research Assistant in the study "Refugees in the German Educational System (ReGES)" at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg, Germany
09/2019 – 06/2020
Master in Sociology and Social Research (Dottore Magistrale) at the University of Trento, Italy (Major field of study: Culture and Communication)
10/2017 – 07/2020
Sociology (M.A.) at the University of Bamberg, Germany (Major field of study: Empirical Social Research and Communication and Internet)
09/2017 – 08/2019
Scientific Support at the study "Refugees in the German Educational System (ReGES)" at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg, Germany

Participation in Data Sets

Heinrit, F. (since 2017). Contributing to the development of data set of the study ReGES (Refugees in the German Educational System) with release dates from 2021 onwards, as listed under https://www.lifbi.de/en-us/Start/Data-Services/Data-and-Documentation/SUF-Overview

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Publications

2025

Heinritz, F. (2025). Mother tongue or non-native language? – The influence of language on response behavior in surveys. Methods, Data, Analyses, 19(1), 67-93. https://doi.org/10.12758/mda.2025.03
Zentrum für Studienmanagement – Arbeitsbereich Datenschutz in Erhebungen. (2025). Was muss bei Audio- und Videoaufnahmen beachtet werden? (Datenschutz in sozialwissenschaftlichen Erhebungen, Fact Sheet No. 09, Version 01) [also available in English: What needs to be taken into account for audio and video recordings? https://doi.org/10.5157/LIfBi:DS:FS09EN:1.0]. Bamberg: Leibniz Institut für Bildungsverläufe. https://doi.org/10.5157/LIfBi:DS:FS09:1.0
Zentrum für Studienmanagement – Arbeitsbereich Datenschutz in Erhebungen. (2025). Was muss bei der Rekrutierung der Teilnehmenden datenschutzrechtlich beachtet werden? (Datenschutz in sozialwissenschaftlichen Erhebungen, Fact Sheet No. 08, Version 01) [also available in English: What must be considered regarding data protection law when recruiting participants? https://doi.org/10.5157/LIfBi:DS:FS08EN:1.0]. Bamberg: Leibniz Institut für Bildungsverläufe. https://doi.org/10.5157/LIfBi:DS:FS08:1.0

2023

Will, G., Heinritz, F., & von Maurice, J. (2023). Welche Erfahrungen geflüchteter Jugendlicher wirken sich hemmend oder fördernd auf die schulische Bildungskarriere aus? Impu!se für Gesundheitsförderung, 120(3), 9-10. https://www.gesundheit-nds-hb.de/fileadmin/Publikationen/Impulse/impulse-nr120-web.pdf

2022

Heinritz, F., Will, G., & Gentile, R. (2022). Surveying illiterate individuals: Are audio files in computer-assisted self-interviews a useful supportive tool? In S. Pötzschke, & S. Rinken (Eds.), Migration research in a digitized world Using innovative technology to tackle methodological challenges (pp. 101-125). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01319-5_6

2021

Heinritz, F., & Will, G. (2021). Geflüchtete in Kindertagesstätten - Erste Ergebnisse der Befragung der institutionellen Kontextpersonen der ReGES-Studie (LIfBi Working Paper No. 93). Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe. https://doi.org/10.5157/LIfBi:WP93:1.0
Heinritz, F., & Will, G. (2021). Selektive Teilnahme von Geflüchteten an der Panelstudie ReGES (LIfBi Working Paper No. 96). Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe. https://doi.org/10.5157/LIfBi:WP96:1.0

2019

Gentile, R., Heinritz, F., & Will, G. (2019). Übersetzung von Instrumenten für die Befragung von Neuzugewanderten und Implementation einer audiobasierten Interviewdurchführung (LIfBi Working Paper No. 86). Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe. https://www.lifbi.de/Portals/2/Working%20Papers/WP_LXXXVI.pdf

2018

Will, G., Gentile, R., Heinritz, F., & von Maurice, J. (2018). ReGES – Refugees in the German Educational System: Forschungsdesign, Stichprobenziehung und Ausschöpfung der ersten Welle (LIfBi Working Paper No. 75). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories. https://www.lifbi.de/Portals/2/Working%20Papers/WP_LXXV.pdf

Selected presentations and lectures

2023

Heinritz, F. (2023, July 17 - 21). Interviews in surveys with refugees [Paper presentation]. 10th European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference - Survey research in times of crisis: Challenges, opportunities, and new directions, Milan, Italy. https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/milan-2023/
Heinritz, F. (2023, July 17 - 21). Using new technologies to survey refugees and what that means for the data [Paper presentation]. 10th European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference - Survey research in times of crisis: Challenges, opportunities, and new directions, Milan, Italy.

2022

Heinritz, F. (2022, June 16 - 17). Mobile apps in surveys with refugees – Potentials and limitations of representation [Paper presentation]. 3rd Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) Workshop, Utrecht, Netherlands. https://massworkshop.org/
Heinritz, F. (2022, October 23 - 25). Longitudinal quantitative surveys of newly immigrated refugees: Lessons from the study ReGES-refugees in the German education system [Paper presentation]. Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) Annual International Conference: Life courses in times of uncertainty, Cleveland, United States of America. https://www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-2022-annual-international-conference

2021

Heinritz, F. (20. - 22. September 2021). Selective participation of refugees in the "Refugees in the German Education System" (ReGES) [Vortrag]. 2021 SLLS International Online Conference, London, England.
Heinritz, F., & Becker, R. (7. Juli 2021). How does a mode switch during field work affect data collection and data biases? Experiences from the refugee study ReGES during the COVID-19-pandemic [Vortrag]. 8th Annual IMISCOE Conference, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

2019

Will, G., Gentile, R., Heinritz, F., & Homuth, C. (15. - 19. Juli 2019). Linguistic aspects of interviewing new immigrants: Translation and interviewing of illiterates [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb, Croatia.

2018

Will, G., von Maurice, J., Balaban, E., Beck, D., Dröscher, A., & Heinritz, F. (6. September 2018). Erste Ergebnisse aus der ReGES-Studie [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen einer Vorstellung im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Berlin, Deutschland.