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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Conference lecture(2026) Expanding Global Higher Education Policy Ontology: The Challenge of Postcolonial Ideas of the University to IO Higher Education Policy Ideas. Worlds of learning: Comparative perspectives on the future(s) of education, CESE Conference 2026
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Conference lecture(2026) The university as haven of productive imagination. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference: Imagining Collective Academic Agency in Higher Education: Higher Education for All
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Conference 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
2025
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Feature article
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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
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Conference lecture(2025) Newman’s idea of the university as model: Tensions between utopian and ideological thinking. The Creative University
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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
2024
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Conference lecture(2024) Unveiling university-society engagement through university origins: Connected stories of university & society in Denmark. Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværk Conference
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Lecture(2024) Thinking with origin stories of Danish universities: Widening the meaning of societal engagement. Sapere Aude – Project Concluding Conference
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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
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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
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Lecture(2024) Knowledge vs. knowing in ontological conceptualisations of the university. Ontology of the University Seminar Series
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Conference lecture(2024) Economic-developmental value capture of the university in World Bank & UNESCO higher education policy. Emerging Scholars Global Governance of Education Symposium
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Conference lecture
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Conference 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
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Feature article
2023
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Conference lecture
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Conference poster(2023) Joining a project-team, finding questions. What is my research problem? Danish School of Education Autumn Symposium
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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
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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
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Conference lecture(2023) Solidarity within and without political structures: Making distinctions between international justice and collective responsibility. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference
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Conference lecture(2023) Examining discourses of power and value in EU-ASEAN higher education cooperation policy and programs. WES-CIHE Conference
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Conference lecture(2023) Finding the edges of “publicness” for the concept of public goods in higher education. Symposium on Higher Education as a Public Good
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Feature article
2022
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Conference lecture(2022) Mapping the complex flows of international aid to higher education. British Association for International and Comparative Education
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Conference lecture(2022) The crisis of the university: Risking provision of global public goods by higher education. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference
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Conference lecture(2022) Defending the idea of the university against technocracy: Can the academic public sphere be properly digitalised?. Comparative International Education Society Conference
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Feature article
2021
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Lecture
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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
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Lecture
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Conference lecture(2021) International higher education in the global public sphere: Secular, plural, participatory. Society of Transnational Scholars (STAR) Global Conference
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Blog post
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Feature article
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Feature article
2020
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Lecture
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Lecture(2020) Towards human rights for the stateless in higher education. CIHE Book Launch for Refugees and Higher Education.
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Blog post
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Feature article