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Biography
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). She is also a Chief Investigator on the ANU Humanising Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge project. Before commencing as RegNet’s Director, she held a Canada Research Chair 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 influence regulation and governance, focusing on the implications for health, public safety and well-being. Her publications span issues of automated decision-making, biomedicalisation, data governance, gender-based regulation, human enhancement, policing technologies and sport. Her work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Ontario Research Fund and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and by government and nongovernmental partners.
Research interests
crime and deviance, health and well-being, intersecting inequalities, law and society, regulation and governance, science and technology studies, surveillance
Researcher's projects
Prof Henne has recently completed studies on the use of digital technologies for aid delivery and social assistance and for managing COVID-19 risks.
With Dr Matt Ventresca, she is writing a book, Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis, under contract with University of California Press. It traces how social stratification informs who is more likely to experience traumatic brain injury and how it is understood as a public health problem. She is also leading a collaborative project on gender inclusion in sport, which builds on her earlier research regarding the regulation of fair play, including drug testing and gender verification practices, and health promotion initiatives for diverse groups in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific.
Recent publications include:
- Deejay A and Henne K (2023) Creating a new normal? Technosocial relations, mundane governance and pandemic-related disruption in everyday life. Sociology, in press, doi:10.1177/00380385231205135
- Deejay A, Henne K, Pine KH, Johnson WG and Carneiro Alphonso F (2023) Navigating a public health crisis: Governance and sensemaking during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. Social Science & Medicine – Qualitative Research in Health 4, 100317.
- Henne K and Orr W (2023) Review of Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 46(1), e10-e12.
- Lee A, Orr W, Johnson WG, Harb JI and Henne K (2023) Barriers to regulating AI: Critical observations from a fractured field. Handbook for Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar, 413-423.
- Orr W, Henne K, Lee A, Harb JI and Carneiro Alphonso F (2023) Necrocapitalism in the gig economy: The case of platform food couriers in Australia. Antipode 55(1), 200-221.
- Shelby R, Rismani S, Henne K, Moon AJ, Rostamzadeh N, Nicholas P, Yilla N, Gallegos J, Smart A, Garcia E and Virk G (2023) Sociotechnical harms of algorithmic systems: Scoping a taxonomy for harm reduction. Proceedings of the Sixth AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (AIES-23), 723-741.
- Ventresca M and Henne K (2022) Is CTE a defence for murder? Critical insights into violence, crime and brain trauma in sports. Power Played: A Critical Criminology of Sport, UBC Press, 177-200.
Current student projects
Principal Supervisor: Sandra Elhelw, Jenna Imad Harb, Heidi Tyedmers
Associate Supervisor: Gita Damayana, Madeleine Dove, Cathy Fussell, Walter Johnson, Tony Kiessler, Jodette Kotz, Therese Pearce Laanela, Maegan Miccelli, Elise Vist
Teaching
- Contemporary Issues in Technology Governance (REGN8014)
- Regulating Disruptive Technologies (REGN8049)
External positions
Advisory Group Member, Female Performance & Health Initiative, Australian Institute of Sport
2023 → …
Associate Editor, Critical AI
2022 → …
Adjunct Professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University
2020 → …
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo
2020 → …
Expertise Areas
- Criminology
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality
- Digital Technology and Social Change
- Health Policy
- Law and Society
- Race and Ethnic Relations
- Regulation and Governance
- Social Theory
- Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
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Network (past 5 years)
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Governance for Gender Inclusion: Levelling the Field in Australian Sport
Henne, K., McLachlan, F. & Pape, M.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
22/06/22 → 21/06/25
Project: Research
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Tackling a Silent Epidemic: Regulatory Science and Traumatic Brain Injury
Australian Research Council (ARC)
17/04/17 → 31/01/21
Project: Research
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Getting Ahead of the Game: Athlete Data in Professional Sport
Powles, J., Walsh, T., Alderson, J., Moses, L. B., Elliott, A., Graham, M., Harris, R., Henne, K., Hughes, D., Innes, M. & Starre, K., 2022Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Navigating a Pandemic: Australian Practices and Perspectives on Information, Services and Technologies during the COVID-19 Crisis
Deejay, A., Henne, K. & Carneiro Alphonso, F., 2022Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Situating Questions of Data, Power, and Racial Formation
Shelby, R. & Henne, K., 2022, In: Big Data & Society. 9, 1, p. 1-4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Body-worn cameras, police violence and the politics of evidence: A case of ontological gerrymandering
Henne, K., Shore, K. & Harb, J., 2021, In: Critical Social Policy. 42, 3, p. 388-407Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Financialization and Welfare Surveillance: Regulating the Poor in Technological Times
Bielefeld, S., Harb, J. & Henne, K., 2021, In: Surveillance and Society. 19, 3, p. 299-316Research output: Contribution to journal › Article