Dr 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 and technologies of regulation, with an empirical focus on how those relationships affect populations differently. She has published widely on feminist approaches to the study of surveillance and practices of bodily regulation.

Her DECRA research explores the rise of traumatic brain injury as a health concern, focusing on shifting scientific and public health discourses frame of the condition and its treatment. It considers how inequality mediates regulatory strategies targeting traumatic brain injury among sport participants, military personnel, and survivors of interpersonal 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

Critical health studies; law and society; science and technology studies; sociology of deviance; sport and physical cultural studies; race, gender and sexuality