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.

crime and deviance, health and well-being, intersecting inequalities, law and society, regulation and governance, science and technology studies, surveillance

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.

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

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