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 leadership team 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 the governance of health, public safety, and social welfare. Her publications span diverse areas such as automated decision-making, biomedicine, data governance, gender inclusion, human enhancement and well-being, and surveillance. New and forthcoming publications include:

• Information, Technology, and Control in a Changing World (second edition, with Blayne Haggart and Natasha Tusikov)
• Legal Regulation of Violence in Organised Sports (with Meredith Edelman and Tate Morgan), Annual Review of Law and Social Science
• Senior Public Servants Think GenAI Will Boost Productivity - But Are Worried About the Risks (with Helen Dickinson, Jade Hart, and Vanessa McDermott), The Conversation
• The Future of Generative AI in Policy Work (with Jade Hart, Helen Dickinson, Vaness McDermott, Shibaab Rahman, and James Connor)
• Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis (with Matt Ventresca)

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

Current research supervisees

• Primary supervisor: Sandra Elhelw, Suvradip Maitra, Esther McVicar
• Associate supervisor: Art Cotterell, Gita Putri Damayana, Madeleine Dove, Kristian Hollins, Asaf Lone, Matthew MacInnes, Maegan Miccelli, Emma Mills, Holly Noble, Kate Starre

Courses taught

• Contemporary Issues in Technology Governance (REGN8014)
• Regulating Disruptive Technologies (REGN8049)
• The Professional Regulator (Foundation)