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 approaches to regulation and governance, with a focus on understanding the implications for health, public safety and well-being. 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, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 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 well-being, intersecting inequalities, law and society, regulation and governance, science and technology studies, surveillance

Prof Henne's current work examines the effects of digitising aid and social assistance. She is also leading a collaborative project on gender inclusion in sport, which builds on her earlier sports governance research on 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:

• Henne K and Orr W (2023) Review of Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
• 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 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.

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

Associate Supervisor: Kirsty Anantharajah, Madeleine Dove, Cathy Fussell, Felicity Gray, Walter G. Johnson, Tony Kiessler, Therese Pearce Laanela, Maegan Miccelli

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