Kathryn Henne
Professor Kathryn Henne
Qualifications
BA (Hons), MA, MA, PhD
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 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 leads RegNet’s Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech), a collaboratory that brings together scholars from Australia and overseas to study and develop more equitable approaches to the governance of science and technology.
Research interests
- Crime, law and society
- Critical health studies
- Intersecting inequalities
- Experiences of regulation and governance
- Science and technology studies
- Surveillance
International Women’s Day 2023: Professor Kathryn Henne
Professor Kathryn (Kate) Henne is the Director of the School of Regulation a
Job opportunity: Research Fellow at RegNet
The School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) is seeking a Research Fellow to carry out independent and collaborative research on the governance of health, technoscience and well-being.
Kate Henne awarded the 2022 CAP Commendation for Excellence in Supervision
RegNet’s Director Professor Kate Henne has been awarded the College of Asia
Greed putting food couriers at risk, researchers warn
The recent deaths of several food delivery couriers in Australia have highlighted a lack of regulation in the industry where companies are putting profits ahead of people.
Where privacy meets power: questions of data & racial inequality
Data are often understood as self-evident reflections of the world, even though there is growing evidence of how data-driven practices can have racially discriminatory outcomes.
Kate Henne quoted in The Guardian on trans participation in sport
RegNet Director Kate Henne was quoted in The Guardian on what really matters when it comes to transgender athletes’ participation in sport.
Getting ahead of the game: athlete data in professional sport
A new discussion paper, Getting ahead of the game: Athlete data in professional sport by the 12-member Expert Working Group convened by the Australian Academy of Science and the University
RegNet Annual Report 2021
It is our pleasure to share our successes, initiatives, engagement and innovative contributions enabled by our dynamic community in the RegNet Annual Report 2021.
Australians managing COVID risks ‘on their own’
Australia is entering a new phase in the pandemic where we are managing more risks on our own, according to a
Leaders need to rebuild trust and credibility in managing the pandemic, says new research by RegNet scholars
by Kathryn Henne, Kathleen H Pine, Aleks Deejay and Franz Carneiro Alphonso
The road to digital surveillance is paved with good intentions – Kate Henne on 'From Rules to Reality'
In this episode of From Rules to Reality, Kate Henne speaks to Simon Kat
Kate Henne to lead new ARC Discovery Project in gender inclusion efforts in Australian sports
Generating novel insights into the governance of gender inclusion in Australian sports is the main focus of a new project led by ANU RegNet Director, Professor Kate Henne.
Body cams alone not enough to prevent police violence
Experts are calling for broader police reforms after new analysis from The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Waterloo in Canada raised serious que
People have had a hard time weighing pandemic risks because they haven’t gotten information they needed when they needed it
By Kate Henne, Kathleen H. Pine and Myeong Lee
Apps against sexual violence have been tried before. They don’t work - 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
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Governing for Gender Inclusion in Australian Sport
Despite a surge in the popularity of women’s sport, most women athletes receive substantially lower pay and have less job stability than their male counterparts.
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.
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.
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.
Transparency and governance working group
In 1998, 'transparency' was dubbed the 'word of the moment' in the New York Times Magazine.
Author(s): Aleks Deejay, Kathryn Henne, Franz Carneiro Alphonso
Date of publications: 2022
Publication type: Government and community sector reports
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
