Peer-Reviewed Articles

McAlpine, L., DeLaquil, T., Bengtsen, S. S. E., Gibson, A. G. (2025). How do Deans of Humanities understand and enact societal engagement within their broader experiences of leading? A Danish case study. Studies in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2544040

McAlpine, L. DeLaquil, T. Bengtsen, S. S. E., Gibson, A. G. (2025) Rectors and university-societal engagement: Re-presenting the ‘reality’ of ‘their’ university. Policy Futures in Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103251324245

DeLaquil, T., Bengtsen, S.S.E., Gibson, A., & McAlpine, L. (2024). Unveiling university-society engagement through university origins: Connected stories of university and society in Denmark. European Journal of Higher Education [Published online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2024.2440699

Wang, L., DeLaquil, T., Collier, K.M., de Wit, H. (2024). The alternative educational pathway to higher education in non-anglophone contexts: Themes and implications from a systematic scoping review on IBDP. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education [Published online]. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2024.2429828

Schendel, R., DeLaquil, T., Rensimer, L., McCowan, T. (2024). ‘Aid’ to higher education in a multiplex world: Exploring the diversity of donor discourses and rationales. International Journal of Education Development, 111(103162) [Published online]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103162

McAlpine, L., Gibson, A. G., Bengtsen, S. S. E., DeLaquil, T. (2024). Valuing humanities: Rethinking the humanities-impact landscape in Denmark. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. [Published online]. https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222241261034

Wang, L. & DeLaquil, T. (2020). The isolation of doctoral education in the times of COVID-19: Recommendations for building relationships within person-environment theory. Higher Education Research & Development, 39(7), 1346-1350. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1823326

Book Reviews

Altbach, P. G. & DeLaquil, T. (2022). Neo-nationalism and universities: Populists, autocrats, and the future of higher education, edited by John Aubrey Douglass. London Review of Education, 20(1), 35. https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.20.1.35

Books/Book Chapters

DeLaquil, T. & Thomas, M. A. M. (2025). Critical discourse analysis (and multimodal discourse analysis). In M. A. M. Thomas, t.d. jules, R. Shields, M. Schweisfurth (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Research Methods in Comparative and International Education (pp. 447-458). Bloomsbury.

DeLaquil, T. (2020). Towards human rights and human dignity for the stateless in higher education: Denied access to higher education for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. In L., Unangst, H., Ergin, A., Khajarian, T., DeLaquil, & H., de Wit (Eds.), Refugees and higher education: Transnational perspectives on access, equity and internationalization (pp. 181-192). Brill Sense. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004435841

Unangst, L., Ergin, H., Khajarian, A.  DeLaquil, T. & de Wit, H. (Eds.). (2020). Refugees and higher education: Transnational perspectives on access, equity and internationalization. Brill Sense. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004435841

de Wit, H., Bernasconi, A., Car, V., DeLaquil, T., Hunter, F., James, M., Tozini, K., & Véliz, D. (2018). Lessons learned as possible future pathways: A summary of key themes and findings. In H., de Wit, A., Bernasconi, V., Car, F., Hunter, M., James, & D., Véliz (Eds.), Identity and internationalization in Catholic universities: Exploring institutional pathways in context (pp. xi-xxii).  Brill Sense. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004382091

Reports/Articles in Reports

Lally, M. & DeLaquil, T. (2023). Examining discourses of power and value in EU-ASEAN higher education: Cooperation policy and programs. Power and equity in international higher education: Proceedings of the 2023 WES–CIHE Summer Institute. CIHE Perspectives, (22). Boston College Center for International Higher Education.

DeLaquil, T., Gelashvili, M., Altbach, P. G., Blanco, G., de Wit, H., & Schendel, R. (2022). The future of international higher education and academic collaboration: Strong partnerships for common goals.  Global University Network for Innovation. https://www.guni-call4action.org/article/future-international-higher-education-and-international-academic-collaboration

DeLaquil, T. (2021). Striving to achieve the “unfinished business” of gender equality: The case of women’s leadership in higher education. In R. Schendel, T. DeLaquil, R. M. Helms, & K. Godwin (Eds.), Women’s representation in higher education around the world. International Briefs for Higher Education Leaders, (9), 36-37.  American Council on Education & Boston College Center for International Higher Education. https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Womens-Rep-in-Higher-Ed-Leadership-Around-the-World.pdf

Schendel, R., DeLaquil, T., Helms, R. M., & Godwin, K. (2021). Women’s representation in higher education around the world. International Briefs for Higher Education Leaders, (9). American Council on Education & Boston College Center for International Higher Education.

De Wit, H. & DeLaquil, T. (Eds.). (2020). Innovative and inclusive internationalization: Proceedings of the WES-CIHE Summer Institute 2020. CIHE Perspectives, (18). Boston College Center for International Higher Education.

DeLaquil, T. & de Wit, H. (Eds.). (2020). The Boston College Center for International Higher Education, Year in Review, 2019–2020. CIHE Perspectives, (16). Boston College Center for International Higher Education.

DeLaquil, T. (2019). Inclusive internationalization is innovative internationalization: Purpose-driven higher education against inequity in society. In R. Schendel, H. de Wit, & T. DeLaquil (Eds.), Inclusive and innovative internationalization of higher education: Proceedings of the WES-CIHE Summer Institute June 19-21, 2019. CIHE Perspectives, (14), 5-7. Boston College Center for International Higher Education.

Schendel, R., de Wit, H., & DeLaquil, T. (Eds.) (2019). Inclusive and innovative internationalization of higher education: Proceedings of the WES-CIHE Summer Institute June 19-21, 2019. CIHE Perspectives, (14). Boston College Center for International Higher Education.

Schendel, R., Unangst, L., Diatta, J., DeLaquil, T. & de Wit, H. (Eds.). (2019). The Boston College Center for International Higher Education, Year in Review: 2018-2019. CIHE Perspectives, (13). Boston College Center for International Higher Education. 

Online Publications/Opinion Pieces

Altbach, P. G. & DeLaquil, T. (2024, October 28). What do the 2024 Nobel Prizes tell us about human society? University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20241028135546429

Altbach, P. G. & DeLaquil, T. (2023, October 23). The 2023 Nobel prizes – What they mean for higher education. University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20231023164318422

Altbach, P. G. & DeLaquil, T. (2022, October 22). What the Nobels tell us about science and higher education. University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20221019154251414

DeLaquil, T. (2021, December 8). Loneliness and collegiality in the academy: Isolated by a neoliberal ideology. British Educational Research Association Blog. https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/loneliness-and-collegiality-in-the-academy-isolated-by-a-neoliberal-ideology

Altbach, P. G. & DeLaquil, T. (2021, October 21). The 2021 Nobels: Lessons for HE, science and society. University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20211021094736381

DeLaquil, T. (2021, July 25). Long way to go for parity for women in HE leadership. University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210719134249610

DeLaquil, T. & Wang, L. (2021, May 1). Undervaluing doctoral education post-COVID brings risks. University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210430131651833 

DeLaquil, T. (2020, August 25). Reflecting on the methodological dualism in higher education research. PaTHES Blog. https://pathes.org/2020/08/25/reflecting-on-the-methodological-dualism-in-higher-education-research/

DeLaquil, T. (2020, August 11). Foundations of a new academic activism: Habermasian democratization of the university. Towards a new academic activism: Short interventions [Online publication]. PaTHES. https://pathes.org/resources/academicactivism/

DeLaquil, T. (2020, July 4). Neo-nationalism is a threat to academic cooperation. University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200630104920899

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

DeLaquil, T. (2025, June 11). Newman’s idea of the university as model: Tensions between utopian and ideological thinking. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference: The Creative University, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

DeLaquil, T. (2024, November 13). Economic-developmental value capture of the university in World Bank & UNESCO higher education policy. King’s International Education Research Network – Emerging Scholars Global Governance of Education Symposium. King’s College London.

DeLaquil, T., Bengtsen, S.S.E., Gibson, Nuriler, H. (2024, June 11-13). Forest ramblings*: The university as a world-becoming. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference: Higher Education Brought to Life, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

DeLaquil, T., Bengtsen, S.S.E., Gibson, A., McAlpine, L., (2024, May 23-24). Unveiling university-society engagement through university origins: Connected stories of university & society in Denmark. Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværk [Danish University Network] Conference, Bredsten, Denmark.

DeLaquil, T. (2024, March 25). Theorising value capture of ideas of the university in international organisational policy discourse within the SAIOS framework. Centre for Global Higher Education – Rethinking the Geopolitics of Higher Education Conference, University College London, Institute of Education, UK. https://www.researchcghe.org/events/rethinking-the-geopolitics-of-higher-education/

DeLaquil, T. (2023, June 13-15). Solidarity within and without political structures: Making distinctions between international justice and collective responsibility. Paper presentation at the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference, University of Gdańsk, Poland.

Lally, M. & DeLaquil, T. (2023, June 6-7). Examining discourses of power and value in EU-ASEAN higher education cooperation policy and programs. Paper presentation at World Education Services-Center for International Higher Education (WES-CIHE) Conference, Boston College, USA.

DeLaquil, T. (2023, March 28). Finding the edges of “publicness” for the concept of public goods in higher education. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES)-Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) Symposium on Higher Education as a Public Good, online. https://pathes.org/symposium-higher-education-as-a-public-good/

Schendel, R. (presenter), DeLaquil, T., McCowan, T., Rensimer, L. (2023, February 18-22). Exposing the dangers of a “single story”: Nuancing the discussion of overseas development assistance in the higher education sector. Paper presentation at the Comparative International Education Society Conference, Washington DC, USA.

DeLaquil, T. (2023, January 21). Dissertation work-in-progress: The influence of values and ideas of the university in international organisational policy on academic research internationalisation and the internationalisation of higher education.  Presentation at CIHE-THUAS Symposium, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands.

McCowan, T., Rensimer, L., DeLaquil, T. (2022, September 13-15). Mapping the complex flows of international aid to higher education. Panel presentation at the British Association for International and Comparative Education, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

DeLaquil, T. (2022, June 7-9). The crisis of the university: Risking provision of global public goods by higher education. Paper presentation at the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Wang, L. & DeLaquil, T. (2022, June 1-3).  Tensions in the “elite” international secondary education pathway to higher education: A scoping review on the IBDP in the non-English speaking context. Paper presentation at World Education Services-Center for International Higher Education (WES-CIHE) Conference, online.

DeLaquil, T. (2022, April 20). Defending the idea of the university against technocracy: Can the academic public sphere be properly digitalised? Paper presentation at the Comparative International Education Society Conference, online.

DeLaquil, T. (2021, December 12). International higher education in the global public sphere: Secular, plural, participatory. Paper presentation at the Society of Transnational Scholars (STAR) Global Conference, online.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS/WEBINARS

DeLaquil, T. (presenter) & de Wit, H. (2025, March 4). Knowledge securitisation policies in international academic collaboration: Geopolitical obstacles to academic freedom. Centre for Studies in Higher Education Webinar Series. University College Dublin.

DeLaquil, T. (2024, December 4). Thinking with origin stories of Danish universities: Widening the meaning of societal engagement. Sapere Aude – Project Concluding Conference. Aarhus University.

DeLaquil, T. (2024, November 18). 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.

Schendel, R., DeLaquil, T., Rensimer, L., McCowan, T. (2024, June 18). Challenging the “single story” in a multiplex world: Nuancing conceptualisations of aid and partnership in the higher education sector. Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) Seminar. https://www.researchcghe.org/events/challenging-the-single-story-in-a-multiplex-world-nuancing-conceptualisations-of-aid-and-partnership-in-the-higher-education-sector/

DeLaquil, T. (2024, January 22). Knowledge vs. knowing in ontological conceptualisations of the university. Ontology of the University Seminar Series. Scholarly Communication Research Group. Adam Mickiewicz University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nxq14sPF78

DeLaquil, T. & Nuriler, H. (2023, November 22). Joining a project-team, finding questions. What is my research problem? Danish School of Education Autumn Symposium. Aarhus University.

Kallo, J. (Discussant, DeLaquil, T.). (2023, November 14). Rethinking the authority of intergovernmental organizations in education. Centre for Higher Education Futures. Aarhus University, Danish School of Education.

DeLaquil, T. (2023, November 10). Thinking about and linking between student development and graduate employment. Young Researchers’ Forum. The Third International Forum on College Students’ Career Development and Education. Beihang University Institute of Higher Education.

DeLaquil, T. (2023, November 1). 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. Policy Futures Research Programme. Aarhus University, Danish School of Education.

Azman, N., DeLaquil, T., Di Iorio, A., Helms, R. M., Kuzhabekova, A., Maldonado-Maldonado, A., Moodly, A., Odura, G. Y., Schendel, R. (2021, July 6). Women’s leadership in higher education: Global opportunity, global challenge. Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) Seminar 223. https://www.researchcghe.org/events/womens-leadership-in-higher-education-global-opportunity-global-challenge/

DeLaquil, T. (2021, February 23). Loneliness & collegiality: Being political in higher education. PaTHES Online Meets.

DeLaquil, T. (2021, February 17). Loneliness & collegiality: In the time of pandemics and polarisation. PaTHES Online Meets.

DeLaquil, T. (2020, June 3). Academic activism: Democratization of the university. PaTHES Online Meets

DeLaquil, T. (2020, January 21). Towards human rights for the stateless in higher education. CIHE Book Launch for Refugees and Higher Education.