Rene Brauer
Senior lecturer
Department of Cultural Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
I am a knowledge geographer whose research focuses on how universities influence wider society and are, in turn, influenced by it. I map knowledge production as an ecosystem: examining how universities, under impact and metric regimes, reorganize the incentives and infrastructures that make research possible. In this context, values such as academic freedom and truth-seeking become functionally necessary to prevent institutional ossification and the persistence of outdated assumptions.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2025). The Tantalean punishment of research evaluation : The impact agenda as the new normal. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education. 7 (2). 231-249.
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Brauer, R., Björn, I., Burgess, G., Dymitrow, M., Greenman, J., et al. (2025). The impact of impact : An invitation to philosophise. Minerva.
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Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2024). Conflation between ‘public good’ and ‘greater good’ in the context of research impact. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education. 6 (3). 377-404.
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Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2024). Death by a Thousand Cuts : A Microsociology of How University Administration Stifles Solidarity. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education. 6 (2). 201-222.
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Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M., Worsdell, F., Walsh, J. (2021). What is the research impact of (the ideal of) scientific truth?. Journal of Education Culture and Society. 12 (2). 113-136.
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Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M., Tribe, J. (2021). A wider research culture in peril : A reply to Thomas. Annals of Tourism Research. 86.
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Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2020). The language of sustainable tourism as a proxy indicator of research quality. Sustainability. 13 (1).
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Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R., Arsovski, S., Biegańska, J. (2019). Atavism, layering and subversion : Understanding great social challenges of today through the lens of cultural contingents. Geographical Reviews. (52). 157-170.
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Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M., Tribe, J. (2019). The impact of tourism research. Annals of Tourism Research. 77. 64-78.
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Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2018). Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography. 100 (3). 195-219.
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Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2017). Human Geography and the hinterland : The case of Torsten Hägerstrand's 'belated' recognition. Moravian Geographical Reports. 25 (2). 74-84.
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Krzysztofik, R., Dymitrow, M., Biegańska, J., Senetra, A., Gavriilidou, E., et al. (2017). Landscapes with different logics : A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planning. Quaestiones Geographicae. 36 (4). 29-45.
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Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2017). Performing rurality. But who?. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series. (38). 27-45.
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Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2016). Land or people? : On the iatrogenesis of conflation. Acta Geobalcanica. 2 (2). 63-75.
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Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2014). Quality of life in rural areas : A topic for the Rural Development policy?. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series. 25 (25). 25-54.
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Conference paper (Refereed)
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2025). Introducing (digital) yeomanry : A potential remedy for contemporary capitalisms’ burnout society. Rural History 2025 : 9 - 12 September Coimbra. 287-287.
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2025). Re-capturing creativity via geographic reasoning: Recontextualizing the university in its planetary context. .
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2024). Conflict resolution within the research ecosystem from an intergenerational perspective. Presented at 6th Annual Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference: “Higher Education Brought to Life”, Trondheim, 11-13 June, 2024.
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2023). Solidarity and the Kafkaesque administrative apparatus of the university. 5th Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES) Conference; Gdansk, Poland; 13-15 June, 2023.
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2023). The greater/public good and research impact. PaTHES–PTHE–EPAT–PESA Conference: “Higher education as a public good” - PaTHES (Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education), EPAT (Educational Philosophy and Theory) and Philosophy of Education Society Australasia (PESA), Aarhus, Denmark, 2023 Mar 28.
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2022). Geography’s three problems seen through the prism of one educational challenge. Multiple Nordic Geographies : 9th Nordic Geographers Meeting, 19th– 22nd of June 2022, Joensuu, Finland. 134-134.
- Arsovski, S., Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2021). Universities, the categorical imperative and responsible research. Book of Abstracts 19th STS Conference Graz 2021,Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, Graz, Austria,3–5 May 2021.
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M., Worsdell, F., Walsh, J. (2020). Maculate reflexivity : Are universities losing the plot?. .
- Biegańska, J., Brauer, R., Jordanova Peshevska, D., Dymitrow, M. (2018). Wicked problems or wicked solutions? Sustainability–differently. .
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2017). Making ’the rural’ rural? : Exploring the tautological tenets in performativity-oriented rural research. .
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2017). Trust vs. indirect harm of research: Introducing the defiltration maxim. .
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2017). Understanding conceptual vestigiality within social sciences from an ecosystem perspective. .
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2017). Understanding the telos of ‘research impact’ – or how to survive the new tourism-studies agenda. .
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2017). When concepts go bad : Iatrogenesis and stigmatization. .
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2016). Conflating land with people a.k.a. the iatrogenesis of rural-urban ideations. .
- Brauer, R., Morgan, N., Tribe, J., Dymitrow, M. (2016). How to write a REF impact case study? : Critical discourse analysis of evidencing practices. “Making an impact: Creative constructive conversations” International Conference, 19–22 July 2016, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2016). The other side of ‘everyday ruralities’. .
- Brauer, R., Tribe, J., Morgan, N., Dymitrow, M. (2016). The value of the negative. 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) / EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) Conference: “Science and Technology by Other Means”, Barcelona, Spain, 31 August–3 September 2016.
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2016). Extra-scientific factors and the dissemination of (un)popular ideas. 2nd International Scientific Conference Geobalcanica, 10–12 June 2016, Skopje, Macedonia.
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2016). Rethinking participation : Ruralities, urbanities and the sociomaterialities of transposition. Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers): “Nexus thinking”, London, UK, 30 August–2 September 2016.
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2015). Dancing tango and herding camels as ways to combat social deprivation?. .
- Kantor-Pietraga, I., Dymitrow, M., Szmytkie, R., Brauer, R., Pełka-Gościniak, J., et al. (2014). Environmental hazards as a driver of urban abandonment in Poland. ECSRL 2024: Unraveling The Logics Of Landscape : 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 8–12 September 2014 in Gothenburg and Mariestad. 104-104.
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2014). Monitoring… when monitoring fails : The case of quality of life within the Rural Development policy. PECSRL 2024: Unraveling The Logics Of Landscape : 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 8–12 September 2014 in Gothenburg and Mariestad. 116-117.
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M., Fridlund, M. (2014). The digital shaping of humanities research : The emergence of Topic Modeling within historical studies. DASTS 2014 Conference: “Enacting Futures”, Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies (DASTS), Roskilde University, 12–13 June 2014, Roskilde, Denmark. 52-52.
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R., Holmertz, G., Apostolovska-Toševska, B., Holmberg, F., et al. (2014). Transcending the rural-urban meme : Hammarkullen – a landscape caught in-between. PECSRL 2024: Unraveling The Logics Of Landscape : 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 8–12 September 2014 in Gothenburg and Mariestad, Sweden. 103-103.
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2013). Digitally modeling regional development in Europe : A new methodological approach to policy analysis. Presented at 9th International Conference Man–City–Nature: “Integrated development of cities and regions”, 14–15 October 2013, Toruń, Poland.
- Brauer, R., Dymitrow, M. (2013). Using topic modelling to analyse EU’s Rural Development policy. Symposium on Systematizing and Digitalizing Nordic Policy Studies: “Emergent perspectives within Swedish and Finnish research”, Aalto University, 27 November 2013, Helsinki, Finland.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Szmytkie, R., Krzysztofik, R., Dymitrow, M., Kantor-Pietraga, I., Pełka-Gościniak, J., et al. (2015). Degraded towns and urban abandonment. Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems : Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy. Göteborg, University of Gothenburg. 185-187.
- Szmytkie, R., Krzysztofik, R., Dymitrow, M., Kantor-Pietraga, I., Pełka-Gościniak, J., et al. (2015). Miasta zdegradowane a procesy opustoszania. Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems : Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy. Göteborg, University of Gothenburg. 189-207.
- Dymitrow, M., Brauer, R. (2014). Social deprivation and urbanity as the elephant in the room. Urban and urbanization. Sofia, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press. 381-395.