Tomaž Deželan je profesor politologije na Univerzi v Ljubljani. Raziskovalno pot je nadaljeval na različnih raziskovalnih ustanovah v tujini (npr. U Edinburgh, U Tallinn) in je nosilec naslova Jean Monnet katedra za državljansko vzgojo. Je član skupine evropskih raziskovalcev na področju mladine v okviru Partnerstva za mlade (Svet Evrope in Evropska komisija) in deluje kot strokovnjak na področju mladine, politične participacije, zaposljivosti in izboljšanja/zagotavljanja kakovosti v izobraževanju. Je koordinator doktorskega študijskega programa Ameriške študije na Fakulteti za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani. Na omenjenih področjih je koordiniral več kot 30 raziskovalnih in aplikativnih projektov v vrednosti več milijonov evrov ter sodeloval s številnimi mednarodnimi vladnimi in nevladnimi organizacijami in pobudami (OVSE ODIHR, OVSE, Evropski mladinski forum, Peace Nexus, International IDEA, Social Progress Imperative, Svet Evrope, Evropska komisija, Evropski parlament, EACEA, ICF, WYG Consulting in druge) ter vladami (Slovenija, Hrvaška, Češka, Latvija, Črna gora). Prof. Deželan je bil eden ključnih strokovnjakov slovenskega predsedovanja EU na področju mladine in soavtor sprejetih sklepov Sveta. Je avtor ali soavtor več kot 30 recenziranih znanstvenih člankov v revijah, 25 poglavij v urejenih zbornikih, 10 znanstvenih monografij in urednik več urejenih zbornikov in posebnih številk revij (ISI ranking) ter avtor več političnih, pozicijskih in zagovorniških dokumentov za različne organizacije (OVSE, International IDEA, EYF).
DEŽELAN, Tomaž, LAVRIČ, Miran. Youth 2020 : the position of young people in Slovenia. 1st digital ed. Maribor: University of Maribor, University of Maribor Press; Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press, 2021.ISBN 978-961-286-518-4, ISBN 978-961-7128-03-1, https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/616, DOI: 10.51746/9789617128031
DEŽELAN, Tomaž, BACALSO, Cristina, LODESERTO, Anna. Youth political participation. Strasbourg: Council of Europe: European Commission, cop. 2023. 1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF (186 str.)), ilustr. Youth Knowledge, 29. ISBN 978-92-871-9239-4. https://book.coe.int/en/youth-other-publications/11365-pdf-youth-political-participation-youth-knowledge-29.html.
SARDOČ, Mitja, DEŽELAN, Tomaž. Talents and distributive justice : some tensions. Educational philosophy and theory. 2021, vol. 53, no. 8, str. 768-776. ISSN 1469-5812. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1808021
GOVEKAR-OKOLIŠ, Monika, SVETLIK, Ivan, DEŽELAN, Tomaž, DROBNE, Manca. Praktično usposabljanje v visokošolskem izobraževanju. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba Univerze, 2023. 176 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-961-297-214-1. DOI: 10.51746/9789612972165.
RAKAR, Tatjana, DEŽELAN, Tomaž. The strength of civil society in Slovenia after three decades of post-communist experience. V: BRIGUGLIO, Lino (ur.). Handbook of civil society and social movements in small states. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Str. 248-261, ilustr. Europa international perspectives. ISBN 978-1-003-34153-6. DOI: 10.4324/9781003341536-21
DEŽELAN, Tomaž. Derailing modern democracies : the case of youth absence from an intergenerational perspective. Annales : anali za istrske in mediteranske študije. Series historia et sociologia. [Tiskana izd.]. 2018, letn. 28, št. 4, str. 811-826, ilustr. ISSN 1408-5348. http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:doc-M7HJ2MKD
MAIER, Jürgen, DEŽELAN, Tomaž, FINK-HAFNER, Danica, et al. This time it's different? : effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens' and its consequence for EU democracy : evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries. Journal of European public policy. [Print ed.]. 2018, vol. 25, no. 4, str. 606-629, tabele. ISSN 1350-1763. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2016.1268643
VOBIČ, Igor, MAKSUTI, Alem, DEŽELAN, Tomaž. Who leads the Twitter tango? : studying the journalist-politician relationship in Slovenia through Twitter conversations. Digital journalism. 2017, vol. 5, no. 9, str. 1134-1154, tabele. ISSN 2167-0811. DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2016.1259002
DEŽELAN, Tomaž, LAKER, Jason A., PAVLIN, Samo. What determines enterprises' perceptions of future development in higher education, strange bedfellows?. European journal of education. 2016, vol. 51, iss. 1, str. 107-125. ISSN 1465-3435. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejed.12169/abstract, DOI: 10.1111/ejed.12169
DEŽELAN, Tomaž, FINK-HAFNER, Danica, MELINK, Mateja. First-job educational and skill match : an empirical investigation of political science graduates in Slovenia. International journal of manpower : international manpower forecasting, planning & labour economics. [Print ed.]. 2014, vol. 35, iss. 4, str. 553-575, tabele. ISSN 0143-7720. DOI: 10.1108/IJM-05-2013-0103
Key thematic expert, European Commission, Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, a Peer Learning Activity (PLA) on quality assurance of citizenship education in VET (2024)
Key expert evaluator of Erasmus + and ESE (youth field) – mid-term term evaluation of programmes in Slovenia 2023 (contracted by the Office for Youth of the Republic of Slovenia; Contract No. C3331-23-450154)(2023)
Expert cunsultant of the European Parliament and author of the EP's AFCO Study on youth political participation for revisions of electoral and broader participatory EU legislation on youth (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2022-0129_EN.html) (2023)
Author and expert consultant for the Council of Europe’s CMJ guidelines to implement Recommendation CM/Rec(2006)14 on citizenship and participation of young people in public life, and Congress Resolution 152 (2003) on the revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life (2023) https://rm.coe.int/cmj-2023-34-guidelines-on-youth-participation-final/1680ad3ca0
Key expert of the Youth Mainstreaming initiative between Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Peace Nexus foundation (development of a youth mainstreaming system for public, private and non-profit organizations)(2022)
European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) member of the Pool of Experts (2022)
Lead expert of the Council of Europe and European Commission’s Youth Partnership study on Political participation and Shrinking Civic spaces (2022; https://pjp-eu.coe.int/documents/42128013/72351197/The+impact+of+the+covid-19+pandemic+on+youth+spaces.pdf/9bfe2c91-6cc1-2fdf-4d3f-7197b350fd7d?t=1669892603000)
Key expert of the Slovenian Presidency to the Council of the European Union for the field of Youth (key expert in the drafting team of Council conclusions and Keynote at the ministerial orientation debate held by the EU Ministers responsible for Youth) (2021; https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-14429-2021-INIT/en/pdf)
Lead expert of the European Parliament’s EUROBAROMETER Youth Study 2021 (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/be-heard/eurobarometer/youth-survey-2021 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/files/be-heard/eurobarometer/2021/youth-survey-2021/expert-insights.pdf)
Lead Expert of the Council of Europe and European Commission’s Youth Partnership study Shrinking democratic civic space for youth (https://pjp-eu.coe.int/documents/42128013/59895423/TDLY_CSYP.pdf/cb8643c1-2707-0f1b-3f81-f13704dc9081)
CEDEFOP “Governance of EU Skills Anticipation And Matching Systems: In-Depth Country Reviews” (Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Srl SB); consultant
Council of the RS for Quality and Evaluation (2021-2026); member
Slovenian Rectors' conference WG on graduate employability tracking; 2021; President (http://www.rkrs.si/en/delovne-skupine-rektorske-konference-rs)
Evaluator of the Republic of Croatia's operational programme Effective Human Potentials 2014-2020, priority axis 2 – social inclusion; 2020-2021 (WYG International); key expert
CEDEFOP Financial and non-financial incentives to encourage provision of and participation in education and training; 2020-2021 (3s Unternehmensberatung GmbH); consultant
EC DG EAC Expert group on EU indicators in the youth field, group member
The Bologna Follow-Up Group 2018-2020 (BFUG), Advisory Group on Learning and Teaching (AG 2), group member
Council of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia’s Working group on youth work quality framework: member
Slovenian Rectors' conference WG member-- Working group on development of the culture of quality in Slovenian universities, group member (http://www.rkrs.si/en/delovne-skupine-rektorske-konference-rs)
Expert evaluator of the National Programme for Youth of the Republic of Slovenia 2013—2022; midterm evaluation; Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth (contract no. C3331-17-450090)
Council of Europe and European Commission’s Pool of European Youth Researchers (PEYR); member (2017-)
Principal Researcher of the policy initiative "Youth Inclusion in Political Parties: toolkit for advocacy" (commissioned by the European Youth Forum)
Principal Researcher of the Youth Influence Index (partnership with OSCE ODIHR, European Youth Forum, International IDEA, Deloitte, Social Progress Imperative)
Research advisor and expert of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) for the field of Intergenerational Dialogue
Research partner of the European Union's ERASMUS+ Agency in Slovenia; RAY network (Research-based Analysis and Monitoring of Erasmus+); exclusive research contract 2015-2021
Country expert of the CEDEFOP’s (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) “Measuring Performance of EU Member States Skills Systems and Prioritising Skill Mismatches” project – “EU Skills Panorama” (Contract No 2014-0070/AO/RPA/KPOUL-AZU/Prioritising_Skill_Mismatches/015/13)
Member of the governmental (Government of the Republic of Slovenia) project council for promotion of social entrepreneurship, cooperatives and economic democracy (Head of Education group)
Policy advisor of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); Political Participation (Pr. no. 353793)
Special service consultant of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); Democratic governance: Political Participation of Youth (Pr. no. 330157)
Accreditation and evaluation expert in the field of quality assessment in higher education of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (SQAA) (2013-)