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Kathryn Henne
Dr Kathryn Henne
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (Temple), MA (California State), MA PhD (California)
Associate Professor Kathryn (Kate) Henne is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She earned her MA and PhD (with a specialisation in Anthropologies of Medicine, Science and Technology) from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, and a second MA from the College of Health and Human Services at the California State University, Long Beach.
Her research interests, broadly conceived, are concerned with biogovernance, which is the governance of populations and individual humans through science and technology. The bulk of her work examines intersections between inequality, social control and technoscience, with a focus on how they contribute to understandings of human bodies and the ways they are governed. It spans topics related to biometric surveillance, practices of policing, and the regulation of human enhancement and physical well-being.
Her 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. It considers how inequality mediates regulatory strategies targeting traumatic brain injury among sport participants, military personnel, and survivors of intimate partner violence in Australia, Canada, and the United States (including U.S. Pacific Island territories). The aim is to illuminate how science and regulation interact across contexts, as well as how they reflect shifting understandings of brain health, the mind and body, and (injured) human agency.
Research interests
crime, law and society; critical health studies; embodiment; race, gender and sexuality; regulation and governance; science and technology studies; sociology of deviance; surveillance

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.

Two new RegNet projects receive ARC funding
Two new RegNet projects have received ARC funding through the Discovery Early Career Research Award scheme, announced October 31 2016.

Kate Henne recognised as Fellow Higher Education Academy
Congratulations to RegNet Education Director Dr Kate Henne who has been recognised as a Fellow in 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

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

ARC DECRA, 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.
Completed

Transparency and governance working group
In 1998, 'transparency' was dubbed the 'word of the moment' in the New York Times Magazine.

Author(s): Kathryn Henne
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article

Author(s): Kathryn Henne
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article

Author(s): Kathryn Henne, Madeleine Pape
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article

Author(s): Henne, Kathryn
Date of publications: 2016
Publication type: Opinion piece