Tessa DeLaquil
Publications
‘Aid’ to higher education in a multiplex world: Exploring the diversity of donor discourses and rationales
The international development landscape is more ‘multiplex’ today than was the case after WWII. This article considers how this changing landscape has affected aid to higher education in lower-income contexts in relation to the top 15 funders.
Unveiling university-society engagement – university origin stories from Denmark
We draw from Danish university origin stories to unveil the meso societal context in which universities operate. A historically-informed understanding of university-society engagement offers insight into the significance of the university to society
How do deans of humanities understand and enact societal engagement within their broader experiences of leading? A Danish case study
How do deans of faculties of humanities in Denmark understand/enact university-societal engagement while negotiating multiple responsibilities? Responsibilities & personal values scaffolded how they enacted commitment to societal engagement.
Outreach
CGHE Webinar: Challenging the “single story” in a multiplex world: nuancing conceptualisations of aid and partnership in the higher education sector
This webinar will nuance the current donor narrative by presenting the findings of a qualitative study, focused on the top fifteen funders of higher education in low- and middle-income countries between 2011 and 2020 (based on available OECD data).
Economic-developmental value capture of IOs in higher ed policy
Examines the role of the World Bank and UNESCO as influential international organisations in global governance of higher education, by analysing 25 years of policy documents, showing how IOs wield power by framing the purpose & function of universities
2026
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Academic lecture(2026) Responsibilization of the university community in knowledge securitization policies. CIHE Friends in Europe Meeting 2026: Reflecting on European Higher Education Policy in Geopolitically Challenging Times , DAAD Brussels Office 22.01.2026 - 23.01.2026
2025
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Lecture(2025) The manoeuvrability of the Danish tertiary education. Governance and steering of a responsive system with policy reform in a small state. Research group presentation , Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning (NIFU). 20.10.2025 - 20.10.2025
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Lecture(2025) Knowledge securitisation policies in international academic collaboration: Geopolitical obstacles to academic freedom. Centre for Studies in Higher Education Webinar Series , Online 04.03.2025 - 04.03.2025
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Academic lecture(2025) Newman’s idea of the university as model: Tensions between utopian and ideological thinking. The Creative University , Trinity College Dublin 10.06.2025 - 12.06.2025
2024
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Lecture(2024) Thinking with origin stories of Danish universities: Widening the meaning of societal engagement. Sapere Aude – Project Concluding Conference , Online 04.12.2024 - 04.12.2024
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Lecture(2024) The role of faith-based actors in international development education: Theorising shared purposes and values in religion and international development cooperation. University College Dublin School of Education Research Seminar Series , University College Dublin 18.11.2024 - 18.11.2024
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Lecture(2024) Challenging the “single story” in a multiplex world: nuancing conceptualisations of aid and partnership in the higher education sector | Centre for Global Higher Education. Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) Seminar , Online 18.06.2024 - 18.06.2024
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Lecture(2024) Knowledge vs. knowing in ontological conceptualisations of the university. Ontology of the University Seminar Series , Online 22.01.2024 - 22.01.2024
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Academic lecture(2024) Economic-developmental value capture of the university in World Bank & UNESCO higher education policy. Emerging Scholars Global Governance of Education Symposium , Online 13.11.2024 - 13.11.2024
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Academic lecture(2024) Forest ramblings*: The university as a world-becoming. Higher Education Brought to Life , Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim 11.06.2024 - 13.06.2024
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Academic lecture(2024) Unveiling university-society engagement through university origins: Connected stories of university & society in Denmark. Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværk Conference , Bredsten 23.05.2024 - 24.05.2024
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Academic lecture(2024) Theorising value capture of ideas of the university in international organisational policy discourse within the SAIOS framework. Rethinking the Geopolitics of Higher Education , University College London, Institute of Education 25.03.2024 - 25.03.2024
2023
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Poster(2023) Joining a project-team, finding questions. What is my research problem? Danish School of Education Autumn Symposium , Aarhus University 22.11.2023 - 22.11.2023
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Lecture(2023) Thinking about and linking between student development and graduate employment. Young Researchers’ Forum. The Third International Forum on College Students’ Career Development and Education , Online 10.11.2023 - 10.11.2023
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Lecture(2023) Understanding values and ideas of the university in international organisational policy discourse: Genre flipping from dissertation monograph to paper-sized stories. Brown Bag Seminar Series for Early Career Researchers , Online 01.11.2023 - 01.11.2023
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Academic lecture(2023) Solidarity within and without political structures: Making distinctions between international justice and collective responsibility. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference , University of Gdańsk 13.06.2023 - 15.06.2023
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Academic lecture(2023) Examining discourses of power and value in EU-ASEAN higher education cooperation policy and programs. WES-CIHE Conference , Boston College 06.06.2023 - 07.06.2023
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Academic lecture(2023) Finding the edges of “publicness” for the concept of public goods in higher education. Symposium on Higher Education as a Public Good , Online 28.03.2023 - 28.03.2023
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Academic lecture(2023) The influence of values and ideas of the university in international organisational policy on academic research internationalisation and the internationalisation of higher education. CIHE-THUAS Symposium , The Hague University of Applied Sciences 21.01.2023 - 22.10.2025
2022
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Academic lecture(2022) Mapping the complex flows of international aid to higher education. British Association for International and Comparative Education , University of Edinburgh 13.09.2022 - 15.09.2022
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Academic lecture(2022) The crisis of the university: Risking provision of global public goods by higher education. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference , University of Uppsala 07.06.2022 - 09.06.2022
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Academic lecture(2022) Defending the idea of the university against technocracy: Can the academic public sphere be properly digitalised?. Comparative International Education Society Conference , Online 19.04.2022 - 22.04.2022
2021
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Lecture(2021) Women’s leadership in higher education: Global opportunity, global challenge | Centre for Global Higher Education. Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) Seminar 223 , Online 06.07.2021 - 06.07.2021
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Lecture(2021) Loneliness & collegiality: Being political in higher education. PaTHES Online Meets , Online 23.02.2021 - 23.02.2021
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Lecture(2021) Loneliness & collegiality: In the time of pandemics and polarisation. PaTHES Online Meets , Online 17.02.2021 - 17.02.2021
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Academic lecture(2021) International higher education in the global public sphere: Secular, plural, participatory. Society of Transnational Scholars (STAR) Global Conference , Online 10.12.2021 - 12.12.2021
2020
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Lecture(2020) Academic activism: Democratization of the university. PaTHES Online Meets , Online 03.06.2020 - 03.06.2020
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Lecture(2020) Towards human rights for the stateless in higher education. CIHE Book Launch for Refugees and Higher Education. , Boston College 21.01.2020 - 21.01.2020