Ingvild Bode is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project AutoNorms on autonomous weapons systems and international norms.
Her research focuses on processes of normative and policy change, especially with regard to the use of force. Her work has been with the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Global Governance, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, and Ethics and Information Technology and other journals.
She is the co-author of Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022, with Hendrik Huelss) and the author of Individual Agency and Policy Change at the United Nations (Routledge, 2015). Previously, Ingvild was Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (2015-2020) and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science International Research Fellow (postdoc) with joined affiliation at United Nations University and the University of Tokyo (2013-2015). She has also lectured at the University of Tübingen, Germany (2008-2012), where she was a research fellow and completed her PhD.