Dr Bruun is a social anthropologist and Research Associate at King’s College London where he is working on the SAMCOM project (https://samcom.uk) that investigates forms of surveillance and monitoring in Germany and Britain, funded by the European Research Council. He currently researches the question of health surveillance in the UK through fieldwork with users of digital self-monitoring technologies, such as health-tracking apps and smartwatches.
He previously conducted ethnographic research on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) NHS service in England, examining the practice of ‘evidence-based’ psychotherapy.
He also teaches and supervises in the Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology, and on the MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society: https://www.hms.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/social-anthropology
