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 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 regulation and governance, with a focus on understanding the implications for health, safety and wellbeing. Her publications span issues of biomedicalisation, crime and deviance, data governance, gender-based regulation, human enhancement, policing technologies, sport 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.

health and wellbeing, intersecting inequalities, law and society, regulation and governance, science and technology studies, surveillance

Prof Henne's current projects examine the rise of the digital welfare state and digitised social assistance, sociotechnical practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and gender inclusion efforts in sport. The latter builds on her earlier research on sports governance, which has included studies of health promotion initiatives, performance enhancement, the regulation of fair play (including drug testing and gender verification) and sport for development programming.

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 looks at how social stratification informs who is more likely to experience traumatic brain injury and how it is understood as a public health problem.

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
• Shelby R and Henne K (2022) Situating questions of data, power and racial formation. Big Data & Society 9(1), 1-4.
• 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.
• 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.

Principal Supervisor: Jenna Imad Harb, Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran, Heidi Tyedmers, Sandra Elhelw Wright

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

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