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Tessa DeLaquil

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Tessa DeLaquil

Associate Professor
Department of Education and Lifelong Learning

tessa.delaquil@ntnu.no
Dragvoll 1, Bygg 1 - 6 Dragvoll, Trondheim
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About

Tessa DeLaquil is associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She is co-editor of the Springer series Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives, associate editor of the journal Policy Reviews in Higher Education, and Executive Board member of the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES). Her research interests include values and ideas of the university, international higher education policy, and international development higher education.

Competencies

  • Higher education studies
  • International development cooperation
  • Internationalization of higher education
  • Philosophy of education
  • Political theory

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.
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2025

  • DeLaquil, Tessa; Thomas, Matthew A. M.. (2025) Critical discourse analysis (and multimodal discourse analysis).
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • McAlpine, Lynn; DeLaquil, Tessa; Bengtsen, Søren SE; Gibson, Andrew G. (2025) Rectors and university-societal engagement: Representing the ‘reality’ of ‘their’ university. Policy Futures in Education
    Academic article
  • McAlpine, Lynn; DeLaquil, Tessa; Bengtsen, Søren S. E.; Gibson, Andrew 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
    Academic article

2024

  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2024) Thinking with origin stories of Danish universities: Widening the meaning of societal engagement.
    Other presentation
  • Altbach, Philip G; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2024) What do the 2024 Nobel prizes tell us about human society?.
    Feature article
  • McAlpine, Lynn; Gibson, Andrew G; Bengtsen, Søren SE; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2024) Valuing humanities: Rethinking the humanities-impact landscape in Denmark. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
    Academic article
  • Schendel, Rebecca; DeLaquil, Tessa; Rensimer, Lee; McCowan, Tristan. (2024) ‘Aid’ to higher education in a multiplex world: Exploring the diversity of donor discourses and rationales. International Journal of Educational Development
    Academic article
  • Wang, Lizhou; DeLaquil, Tessa; Wit, Hans de; Collier, K. Megan. (2024) The alternative education pathway to higher education in non-anglophone contexts: themes and implications from a systematic scoping review on IBDP. Compare
    Academic article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa; Bengtsen, Søren S. E.; Gibson, Andrew G.; McAlpine, Lynn. (2024) Unveiling university-society engagement – university origin stories from Denmark. European Journal of Higher Education
    Academic article

2023

  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2023) Thinking about and linking between student development and graduate employment.
    Other presentation
  • Altbach, Philip G; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2023) The 2023 Nobel prizes – What they mean for higher education.
    Feature article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2023) Understanding Values & Ideas of the University in International Organisational Policy Discourse - ProQuest. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
    Doctoral dissertation

2022

  • Altbach, Philip G; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2022) What the Nobels tell us about science and higher education.
    Feature article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa; Gelashvili, Maia; Altbach, Philip G; Blanco, Gerardo; Wit, Hans de; Schendel, Rebecca. (2022) The future of international higher education and academic collaboration: Strong partnerships for common goals.
    Other
  • Altbach, Philip; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2022) Book review: Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, autocrats, and the future of higher education, by John Aubrey Douglass. London Review of Education
    Academic article

2021

  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Loneliness & collegiality: Being political in higher education.
    Other presentation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Loneliness & collegiality: In the time of pandemics and polarisation.
    Other presentation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Loneliness and collegiality in the academy: Isolated by a neoliberal ideology.
    Other
  • Altbach, Philip G; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) The 2021 Nobels: Lessons for HE, science and society.
    Feature article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Long way to go for parity for women in HE leadership.
    Feature article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Undervaluing doctoral education post-COVID brings risks.
    Feature article
  • Schendel, Rebecca; DeLaquil, Tessa; Helms, Robin M; Godwin, Kara. (2021) Women’s representation in higher education around the world.
    Other

2020

  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Academic activism: Democratization of the university.
    Other presentation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Towards human rights for the stateless in higher education.
    Other presentation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Foundations of a new academic activism: Habermasian democratization of the university. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society
    Compendium
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Reflecting on the methodological dualism in higher education research.
    Other
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Neo-nationalism is a threat to academic cooperation.
    Feature article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Towards Human Rights and Human Dignity for the Stateless in Higher Education.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Unangst, Lisa; Ergin, Hakan; Khajarian, Araz; DeLaquil, Tessa; Wit, Hans de. (2020) Refugees and Higher Education. Brill | Sense Brill | Sense
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Wang, Lizhou; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) The isolation of doctoral education in the times of COVID-19: recommendations for building relationships within person-environment theory. Higher Education Research and Development
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • McAlpine, Lynn; DeLaquil, Tessa; Bengtsen, Søren SE; Gibson, Andrew G. (2025) Rectors and university-societal engagement: Representing the ‘reality’ of ‘their’ university. Policy Futures in Education
    Academic article
  • McAlpine, Lynn; DeLaquil, Tessa; Bengtsen, Søren S. E.; Gibson, Andrew 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
    Academic article
  • Altbach, Philip G; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2024) What do the 2024 Nobel prizes tell us about human society?.
    Feature article
  • McAlpine, Lynn; Gibson, Andrew G; Bengtsen, Søren SE; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2024) Valuing humanities: Rethinking the humanities-impact landscape in Denmark. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
    Academic article
  • Schendel, Rebecca; DeLaquil, Tessa; Rensimer, Lee; McCowan, Tristan. (2024) ‘Aid’ to higher education in a multiplex world: Exploring the diversity of donor discourses and rationales. International Journal of Educational Development
    Academic article
  • Wang, Lizhou; DeLaquil, Tessa; Wit, Hans de; Collier, K. Megan. (2024) The alternative education pathway to higher education in non-anglophone contexts: themes and implications from a systematic scoping review on IBDP. Compare
    Academic article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa; Bengtsen, Søren S. E.; Gibson, Andrew G.; McAlpine, Lynn. (2024) Unveiling university-society engagement – university origin stories from Denmark. European Journal of Higher Education
    Academic article
  • Altbach, Philip G; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2023) The 2023 Nobel prizes – What they mean for higher education.
    Feature article
  • Altbach, Philip G; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2022) What the Nobels tell us about science and higher education.
    Feature article
  • Altbach, Philip; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2022) Book review: Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, autocrats, and the future of higher education, by John Aubrey Douglass. London Review of Education
    Academic article
  • Altbach, Philip G; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) The 2021 Nobels: Lessons for HE, science and society.
    Feature article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Long way to go for parity for women in HE leadership.
    Feature article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Undervaluing doctoral education post-COVID brings risks.
    Feature article
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Neo-nationalism is a threat to academic cooperation.
    Feature article
  • Wang, Lizhou; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) The isolation of doctoral education in the times of COVID-19: recommendations for building relationships within person-environment theory. Higher Education Research and Development
    Academic article

Books

  • Unangst, Lisa; Ergin, Hakan; Khajarian, Araz; DeLaquil, Tessa; Wit, Hans de. (2020) Refugees and Higher Education. Brill | Sense Brill | Sense
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Part of book/report

  • DeLaquil, Tessa; Thomas, Matthew A. M.. (2025) Critical discourse analysis (and multimodal discourse analysis).
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • DeLaquil, Tessa; Gelashvili, Maia; Altbach, Philip G; Blanco, Gerardo; Wit, Hans de; Schendel, Rebecca. (2022) The future of international higher education and academic collaboration: Strong partnerships for common goals.
    Other
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Loneliness and collegiality in the academy: Isolated by a neoliberal ideology.
    Other
  • Schendel, Rebecca; DeLaquil, Tessa; Helms, Robin M; Godwin, Kara. (2021) Women’s representation in higher education around the world.
    Other
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Reflecting on the methodological dualism in higher education research.
    Other
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Towards Human Rights and Human Dignity for the Stateless in Higher Education.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2023) Understanding Values & Ideas of the University in International Organisational Policy Discourse - ProQuest. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
    Doctoral dissertation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Foundations of a new academic activism: Habermasian democratization of the university. Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society
    Compendium

UTSTILLING

  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2024) Thinking with origin stories of Danish universities: Widening the meaning of societal engagement.
    Other presentation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2023) Thinking about and linking between student development and graduate employment.
    Other presentation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Loneliness & collegiality: Being political in higher education.
    Other presentation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) Loneliness & collegiality: In the time of pandemics and polarisation.
    Other presentation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Academic activism: Democratization of the university.
    Other presentation
  • DeLaquil, Tessa. (2020) Towards human rights for the stateless in higher education.
    Other presentation

Teaching

Courses

  • PED2000 - Education from a societal perspective

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

2025

  • Lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa; Wit, Hans de. (2025) Knowledge securitisation policies in international academic collaboration: Geopolitical obstacles to academic freedom. Centre for Studies in Higher Education Webinar Series , Online 2025-03-03 - 2025-03-03
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (2025) Newman’s idea of the university as model: Tensions between utopian and ideological thinking. The Creative University , Trinity College Dublin 2025-06-09 - 2025-06-11

2024

  • Lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (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 2024-11-17 - 2024-11-17
  • Lecture
    Schendel, Rebecca; DeLaquil, Tessa; Rensimer, Lee; McCowan, Tristan. (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 2024-06-17 - 2024-06-17
  • Lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (2024) Knowledge vs. knowing in ontological conceptualisations of the university. Ontology of the University Seminar Series , Online 2024-01-21 - 2024-01-21
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (2024) Economic-developmental value capture of the university in World Bank & UNESCO higher education policy. Emerging Scholars Global Governance of Education Symposium , Online 2024-11-12 - 2024-11-12
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa; Bengtsen, Søren; Gibson, Andrew; Nuriler, Hatice. (2024) Forest ramblings*: The university as a world-becoming. Higher Education Brought to Life , Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim 2024-06-10 - 2024-06-12
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa; Bengtsen, Søren; Gibson, Andrew; McAlpine, Lynn. (2024) Unveiling university-society engagement through university origins: Connected stories of university & society in Denmark. Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværk Conference , Bredsten 2024-05-22 - 2024-05-23
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (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 2024-03-24 - 2024-03-24

2023

  • Poster
    DeLaquil, Tessa; Nuriler, Hatice. (2023) Joining a project-team, finding questions. What is my research problem? Danish School of Education Autumn Symposium , Aarhus University 2023-11-21 - 2023-11-21
  • Lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (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 2023-10-31 - 2023-10-31
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (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 2023-06-12 - 2023-06-14
  • Academic lecture
    Lally, Marisa; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2023) Examining discourses of power and value in EU-ASEAN higher education cooperation policy and programs. WES-CIHE Conference , Boston College 2023-06-05 - 2023-06-06
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (2023) Finding the edges of “publicness” for the concept of public goods in higher education. Symposium on Higher Education as a Public Good , Online 2023-03-27 - 2023-03-27
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (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 2023-01-20 - 2025-10-21

2022

  • Academic lecture
    McCowan, Tristan; Rensimer, Lee; DeLaquil, Tessa. (2022) Mapping the complex flows of international aid to higher education. British Association for International and Comparative Education , University of Edinburgh 2022-09-12 - 2022-09-14
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (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 2022-06-06 - 2022-06-08
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (2022) Defending the idea of the university against technocracy: Can the academic public sphere be properly digitalised?. Comparative International Education Society Conference , Online 2022-04-18 - 2022-04-21

2021

  • Lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa; Schendel, Rebecca. (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 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-05
  • Academic lecture
    DeLaquil, Tessa. (2021) International higher education in the global public sphere: Secular, plural, participatory. Society of Transnational Scholars (STAR) Global Conference , Online 2021-12-09 - 2021-12-11

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