About

rune.saugmann.andersen@tuni.fi

Rune Saugmann Andersen is currently an Academy of Finland post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Tampere, working on the role of digital visual media in security politics. His project ‘post-human ways of seeing security’ is about the use of machine vision in security politics – in surveillance systems and in autonomous weapons systems.

Rune working at Tampere in 2015 after receiving his Ph.D. from the Centre for Advanced Security Theory at University of Copenhagen on February 12, 2015 with a dissertation that was characterized the work as ‘strong’, ‘innovative’ and ‘theoretically sophisticated’ and a work that ‘go well beyond merely adequate qualification for a PhD’ by the assessment committee, composed of Professor Michael Shapiro (Hawai’i), Professor Peter Burgess (PRIO) and Associate Professor Karen Lund Petersen (Copenhagen), .
Rune’s interdisciplinary research has been published in leading peer-reviewed outlets such as European Journal of International Relations, Journalism Practice, and Security Dialogue, and in numerous edited books in media studies and international relations. He has published his academic videos in the peer-reviewed video journal Audiovisual Thinking.

Rune is the chair of the board of the Danish NGO Denmark Against Landmines, and since 2010 has been lead researcher on Danish cluster munitions policy for the Landmines and Cluster Munitions Monitor, a yearly report of global renown published by the Nobel Peace Prize winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines.