Kenni Bruun is a medical anthropologist and Research Associate at THIS Institute. His work combines ethnographic methods with anthropological theory to examine the challenges facing healthcare professionals.
Kenni holds a BA, MA and PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and an MRes in Medical Anthropology from University College London.
His doctoral research, funded by the ESRC, investigated evidence-based psychological healthcare in NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) and community mental health services, which included a study of practitioners’ experiences of working within specific regulatory and biomedical frameworks of assessment and care.
Kenni has taught and supervised across a range of courses at Cambridge since 2019, including medical anthropology, gender studies, and ethnographic methods.
Prior to joining THIS Institute, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at King’s College London, where he worked on the ERC-funded project Surveillance and Moral Community: Anthropologies of Monitoring in Germany and Britain. His research explored how people use digital health monitoring technologies, such as smartwatches and apps, to improve physical and mental health.