Thomas Dierker

Thomas Dierker is a Researcher at the Department of Social Work, MCI | The Entrepreneurial School® since 2022, concurrently serving as an Academic Assistant and Project Manager. He holds a Dr. phil. in Educational Science (Free University of Berlin, ongoing) and completed a Master of Arts in Social Work, Social Policy & Management (MCI, 2020). His research focuses on digitalization challenges in social organizations, AI applications in social work, and participatory methodologies. He has led a major research project (2021-2025) funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) on digital solutions for social welfare planning.

Education includes a Bachelor of Arts in Social and Organizational Pedagogy (Hildesheim University, 2017) and graduate school participation in Transnational Social Support (2016-2017). He teaches BA programs in Social Work and Social, Health & Public Management at MCI. Active in professional networks such as the European Educational Research Association and German Society for Social Work (DGSA), he presents at international conferences on topics like AI ethics in social work and organizational pedagogy.

His supervised bachelor's theses explore innovative methods like Theatre of the Oppressed, circus pedagogy, and skateboarding as empowerment tools in social work. Professional training includes Change Management (MCI, 2024) and University Didactics (Austrian UoAS, 2021).