Kathryn Henne
Professor Kathryn Henne
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (Temple), MA (California State), MA PhD (California)
Professor Kathryn (Kate) Henne is the Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). An interdisciplinarily trained scholar, she has a PhD in Criminology, Law and Society, with emphases in Critical Theory and Feminist Studies and a specialisation in Anthropologies of Medicine, Science and Technology, from the University of California, Irvine. 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.
Kate Henne’s research is concerned with the interface between inequality, technoscience and regulation. She has published widely on topics related to biometric surveillance, criminological knowledge production, human enhancement and wellbeing, regulatory science, and technologies of policing. She also leads RegNet’s Justice and Technoscience (JusTech) Lab, a collaboratory that brings together scholars from Australia and overseas to study regulatory strategies that advance more just and equitable approaches to the governance of science and technology.
Research interests
- Crime, law and society
- Critical health studies
- Inequality and social justice
- Lived experiences of regulation and governance
- Science and technology studies
- Surveillance
Apps against sexual violence have been tried before. They don’t work - Professor Kate Henne and PhD Scholar Jenna Harb
There’s been important criticisms of reporting consent through a #consentapp. Our ANURegNet
Should Sport Contribute to Society?- Listen to Professor Kate Henne's interview on One Track Mind
Professor Kate Henne, RegNet’s School Director and founder of the
RegNet’s Director Professor Kate Henne creates the Justice and Technoscience Lab
The School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) is proud to announce the launch of the Justice and Technoscience Lab.
Professor Kate Henne appointed RegNet Director
We are delighted to announce that Professor Kathryn (Kate) Henne has taken up the role of Director at RegNet as of January 1
Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World - new book co-edited by Kathryn Henne
Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World - Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century
Dr Kathryn Henne named 2018 Critical Criminologist of the Year
RegNet Associate Professor Kate Henne has been named the 2018 Critical Criminologist of the Year by the American Society of
Fear and social assistance: How wider social anxieties give way to personified fears
This blog was produced as part of our seminar series: Governance and the power of fear.
RegNet scholars receive ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA)
Two new RegNet projects have received ARC funding through the Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) scheme, announced October 31 2016.
RegNet Education Director Dr Kate Henne recognised as Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Congratulations to RegNet Education Director Dr Kate Henne who has been recognised as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Regarding Rights blog - Kate Henne
Authorities have not yet abandoned deeply held gendered beliefs about what kind of women should be eligible to participate in elite sport
RSAP grants for RegNet scholars
Projects exploring human rights in Hong Kong, sustainable food systems, torture and the Asia Pacific, transparency and integration of immigrants in Australia all receive RSAP funding.
RegNet scholars in Seattle
A group of RegNet scholars descended on Seattle for the 2015 Law and Society Association conference in late May.
RegNet scholars draw Gender Institute support
Two RegNet propelled projects have drawn funding in the recent round of Gender Institute grants.
Current
Mapping the Digital Welfare State
This project examines how technologies, such as biometrics, predictive algorithms and risk assessments, are increasingly used in the context of social assistance provision and regulation.
Regulatory Science and Traumatic Brain Injury
This DECRA research explores the rise of traumatic brain injury as a health concern, focusing on how shifting scientific and public health discourses frame the condition and its treatment.
Sociotechnical Navigation and Problem Solving amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
This international collaboration aims to capture how individuals approach and navigate sociotechnical systems in everyday life during times of major disruption and crisis globally.
Completed
Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World
The collaborative project explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic and social power.
Transparency and governance working group
In 1998, 'transparency' was dubbed the 'word of the moment' in the New York Times Magazine.
Author(s): Henne, Kathryn, Shore, Krystle, Harb, Jenna
Date of publications: 2020
Publication type: Report
Author(s): Kathryn Henne, Emily I. Troshynski
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Blayne Haggart, Kathryn Henne, Natasha Tusikov
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Book
Author(s): Kathryn Henne, Matt Ventresca
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Kathryn Henne, Madeleine Pape
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Kathryn Henne
Date of publications: 2017
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Aaron Roussell, Kathryn Henne, Karen S. Glover, Dale Willits
Date of publications: 2017
Publication type: Journal article
