Prof Kathryn (Kate) Henne is the Director of RegNet, the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance, and leads the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech). Before commencing as RegNet’s Director, she held the Canada Research Chair in Biogoverance, Law and Society at the University of Waterloo, where she was also a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Her research is concerned with how science and technology are changing approaches to governance, with the aim of supporting more equitable regulatory policy and practice. Her publications span issues of biomedicalisation, crime and deviance, data governance, gender-based regulation, human enhancement and wellbeing, policing technologies and surveillance. Her work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Canada Foundation for Innovation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Olympic Studies Centre, Ontario Research Fund, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and World Anti-Doping Agency.

crime and deviance, intersecting inequalities, law and society, regulation and governance, science and technology studies, surveillance

Prof Henne's current projects focus on how inequality affects practices of technoscience and regulation:

• The Digital Welfare State and Technologies of Social Assistance
• Sociotechnical Navigation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Traumatic Brain Injury and Regulatory Science

She has also studied global sports governance for over 15 years, carrying out research on gender-specific rules, health initiatives, performance enhancement, reform agendas and sport for development programming. Her first book traced the many forms of surveillance used to regulate fair play in sport, including drug and gender verification testing. Her ongoing work examines changes and challenges to gender inclusion efforts at elite and grassroots levels.

Recent publications include:

• Orr W, Henne K, Lee A, Harb JI and Carneiro Alphonso F (2022) Necrocapitalism in the gig economy: The case of platform food couriers in Australia. Antipode, online first. doi:10.1111/anti.12877
• Henne K, Pine KH, Deejay A and Carneiro Alphonso F (2022) Trust is key to the omicron response. Australia can still get back on track. The Guardian.
• Deejay A, Henne K and Carneiro Alphonso F (2022) Navigating a pandemic: Australian practices and perspectives on information, services and technologies during the COVID-19 crisis. Canberra: School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University.
• Shelby R and Henne K (2022) Situating questions of data, power and racial formation. Big Data & Society 9(1), 1-4.

Principal Supervisor: Jenna Imad Harb, Daniel Reeders, Dhakshayini Sooriyakumar, Heidi Tyedmers, Sandra Elhelw Wright

Associate Supervisor: Kirsty Anantharajah, Vijetta Bachraz, Cathy Fussell, Felicity Gray, Walter G. Johnson, Tony Kiessler, Janice Lee, Therese Pearce Laanela, Elise Vist

Shane Chalmers, Albert de la Tierra, Meredith Edelman, Bridget Livingstone, Marie-Eve Loiselle, Michael McKenzie, Mareike Riedel, Kanika Samuels-Wortley, Brian Schram, Renee Shelby, Rebekah Smoot-Enns, Kim-Marie Spence, Natasha Tusikov

• Contemporary Issues in Technology Governance (REGN8014)
• Regulating Disruptive Technologies (REGN8049)