Thomas Dierker, BA MA

Professional work experience

04/2022 - present
Teaching & Research Assistant - MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Teaching & Research Assistant at the department for Social Work
10/2020 - 03/2022
Doctoral Student - MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Doctoral Student at the department for Social Work
09/2020 - 10/2020
Research associate - Baden-Württemberg Municipal Association for Youth and Social Affairs, Stuttgart
Research associate in youth welfare planning and reporting
02/2016 - 05/2017
Research student - University of Hildesheim
Collaboration in the research training group "Transnational Social Support" at the institute for Social and Organisational Pedagogy
04/2015 - 03/2016
Event manager - BDKJ in Stadt und Region Hannover e.V.
Event manager for youth policy events, project management and public relations work
01/2013 - 12/2017
Instructor & Trainer - BDKJ in Stadt und Region Hannover e.V.
Trainer for youth leaders and for personality and career orientation courses for young people and with school classes
09/2012 - 08/2013
Voluntary year of social service - BDKJ in Stadt und Region Hannover e.V.

Education

11/2024 - present
PhD - Free University of Berlin
Educational Science
10/2017 - 01/2020
Master of Arts in Social Sciences - MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Social Work, Social Policy & Management
10/2014 - 09/2017
Bachelor of Arts - University of Hildesheim
Social and organisational pedagogy

Teaching (faculty internships etc.)

01/2024 - present
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Compulsory elective subject: Artificial Intelligence in Social Work / BA Social Work
01/2024 - present
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Digital & Green Transformation / BA Social, Health & Public Management
01/2023 - 12/2023
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Project Management & Project Development II (English) / BA Social Work
01/2022 - present
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Scientific work / BA Social Work
01/2022 - present
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Working with groups (English) / BA Soziale Arbeit
01/2022 - 12/2022
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Compulsory elective subject: Sport as a medium of social work / BA Social Work
01/2021 - 12/2022
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Bachelor Thesis Seminar I + II / BA Social Work
01/2021 - 12/2021
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Compulsory elective subject: Diversity mainstreaming in social work organisations / BA Social Work
01/2021 - 12/2021
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Compulsory elective subject: How to build my own youth centre (English) / BA Social Work

Practice related research and developmental project

03/2021 - present
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
A digital guide to social problems: The social route map for western Austria

Competitive Research Award

01/2017 - 12/2017
Rotary Club Hildesheim e.V. Social Fund
Scholarship for academic achievements and voluntary work
01/2016 - 12/2016
Rotary Club Hildesheim e.V. Social Fund
Scholarship for academic achievements and voluntary work

Further education & Training

2024 - 2024
Executive Education, MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
Change management and resilience
2021 - 2021
Austrian Conference of Universities of Applied Sciences
University Didactics I
2017 - 2017
Landesjugendring Niedersachsen e.V.
Trainer for intercultural competence in youth work

Other

06/2016 - 03/2017
Elected member of the student parliament of the University of Hildesheim
09/2012 - 10/2017
Honorary board member of the Catholic Student Youth Association in the diocese of Hildesheim

Positions in professional/academic societies

01/2023 - present
European Educational Research Association (EERA) - Organizational Education Network
01/2023 - present
European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA)
01/2021 - present
German Society for Social Work (DGSA)

Editorial-reviewed journal

Dierker, T. (2022). Niederschwellige Vergangenheit, komplexe Gegenwart. In: Sozialwirtschaft, Jg. 32 (2022), Nr. 2, S. 19-21.

Research monographs

Dierker, T. (2021). Der Sozialmanagement-Ansatz nach Albrecht Müller-Schöll. Eine Wirkungsanalyse. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Presentation of a paper at a conference, workshop or seminar

Dierker, T. (2023). Challenges of diversity-conscious digitalization processes in social organizations: Insights from the practice research project "Digital Social Route Map" in Austria. European Conference on Educational Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 24.08.2023.
Dierker, T. (2023). Die partizipative Entwicklung eines digitalen Sozialroutenplans für Westösterreich - Herausforderungen partizipativer Forschung in einem interdisziplinären Konsortium. Dritter Trinationaler Workshop Partizipative Forschung in der Sozialen Arbeit, FH Salzburg, 15.06.2023.
Fleischer, E. & Dierker, T. (2023). Potentials of service design thinking within service user involvement projects - the "Persona" method as a tool in practice social work research. Workshop. 6th International Conference on Practice Research in Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark, 08.06.2023.
Dierker, T. (2022). "Are we doing the right things?" - Sustainability-oriented management and strategy process design in nonprofit organizations and implications for educational missions. 9th Responsible Management Education Research Conference, MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®, Innsbruck, 28.09.2022.

Supervised bachelor theses

Baumgartner Stefan (2024): Empowerment durch Kraftsport: Die Rolle von Krafttraining in der Sozialen Arbeit in der Stärkung von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund
Harasym Marie (2024): Freiwilligenmanagement in sozialen Organisationen Rolle bei der organisationalen Implementierung eines Sozialzirkus in Innsbruck
Mühlbacher Johanna (2024): Skateboarden als feministische Ressource der Sozialen Arbeit
Passler Franziska (2024): Zirkuspädagogik als präventive Methode in der Sozialen Arbeit mit Kindern und Jugendlichen
Sarg Verena (2023): Integration von Jugendlichen mit Lernschwierigkeiten in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt