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 also serves on the executive of the ANU Integrated AI Network and is a board member of the ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute. Before commencing as RegNet’s Director, she held a Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, where she was a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Her research is concerned with how science and technology contribute to shifts in the governance of health, public safety, and social welfare. Her publications span diverse areas, including automated decision-making, biomedicine, data governance, gender-based regulation, human enhancement, sport, and surveillance. Her work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Health and Medical Research Council, National Science Foundation, Olympic Studies Centre, Ontario Research Fund, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Prof Henne's recent and forthcoming publications include:

• Deejay A, Wells T, Henne K, and Bächold S (2024) Bad Adopters or Bad Proponents of Technology? Facebook and Violence against Muslims in Myanmar. Third World Quarterly 45(8): 1309–24.
• Henne K and Ventresca M (2025) Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis. University of California Press.

She is also co-editing Beyond Data for Development: Identities and Infrastructures of the Digital Welfare State (with Jenna Imad Harb).

crime and deviance, health and well-being, intersecting inequalities, law and society, regulation and governance, science and technology studies, surveillance

Research supervision

• Primary supervisor: Sandra Elhelw, Walter Johnson, Suvradip Maitra
• Associate supervisor: Art Cotterell, Gita Putri Damayana, Madeleine Dove, Tony Kiessler, Asaf Lone, Matthew MacInnes, Maegan Miccelli, Emma Mills, Kate Starre

Postgraduate teaching

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