Vito Dabisch

Vito Dabisch is a Researcher at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, affiliated with the Professorship of Sociology, specializing in the Transformation of Governance in Education and Society. His work focuses on datafication in education, school governance, and educational policy, particularly through comparative and international perspectives.

• Current Project: BMBF-funded "DATAFIED – DATA For and In Education" (2019–present), examining how datafication reshapes school construction via supervision and evaluation.
• Past Roles: Student Assistant at Helmut Schmidt University, UCL Institute of Education, and Free University of Berlin; coordinator of the BIEN early-career researcher network (2020–2021).

His research explores school choice mechanisms, data-driven governance, and the social/political/legal frameworks of education. Publications highlight tensions in data interoperability, digital school monitoring, and corporate influences on education systems. He has presented at major conferences like ECER and EERA, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to educational governance.

• Key Themes in Work: Datafication, digital infrastructures, school allocation policies, and comparative analysis of educational systems.

Vito is an associate member of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) and co-founded the KriDiFoSch network for critical digitalization research in education. He has actively contributed to symposium organization and academic discourse on education professionalism in datafied societies.