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 Biogovernance, Law and Society at the University of Waterloo, where she was also a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Professor Henne's research is concerned with how science and technology contribute to the governance of persons and populations, with a particular focus on how to support more equitable regulatory approaches. Her publications span issues of biomedicalisation, criminalisation, gender regulation, human enhancement and wellbeing, surveillance and technologies of policing. 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, sociology of health, surveillance

Professor Henne's ongoing work examines intersections between inequality, regulation and technoscience. Her current projects focus on:

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

In addition to these projects, she has studied global sports governance for over 15 years. Her first book, Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport, traces the development and effects of regulation and surveillance targeting ‘fair play’ in sport. She has also written about gender-specific regulations, health initatives, mega-events, reform agendas and sport for development programming.

Recent publications include:

• Henne, K., Shelby, R. & Harb, J.I. 2022. The datafication of #MeToo: Whiteness, racial capitalism and anti-violence technologies. Big Data & Society, in press.
• Henne, K., Shore, K. & Harb, J.I. 2022. Body-worn cameras, police violence and the politics of evidence: A case of ontological gerrymandering. Critical Social Policy, online first.
• Shelby, R., Harb, J.I. and Henne, K. 2021. Whiteness in and through data protection: An Intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots. Internet Policy Review 10(4), in press.
• Bielefeld, S., Harb, J. & Henne, K. 2021. Financialization and welfare surveillance: Regulating the poor in technological times. Surveillance & Society 19(3): 299-316.
• Casper, S.T. et al. 2021. Toward complete, candid and unbiased international consensus statements on concussion in sport. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 49(3): 372-377.
• Pine, K., Henne, K. & Lee, M. 2021. People have had a hard time weighing pandemic risks because they haven’t gotten information they needed when they needed it. The Conversation, April 29.
• Henne, K., Shelby, R. & Harb, J.I. 2021. Apps against sexual violence have been tried before. They don’t work.The Conversation, March 19.

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

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

• Criminology (REGN8013)
• Regulating Disruptive Technologies (REGN8049)