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. Before commencing as RegNet’s Director, she held a Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo.

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, sports, surveillance, and wellbeing.

Prof Henne's recent book, Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis (with Matt Ventresca), traces how law, science, and social inequities shape depictions and understandings of brain injury. It explains how certain bodies are recognised as part of a larger concussion crisis while others are pushed to the margins. Forthcoming publications include:

• Affordance Analyses of AI Safety Policies: A Proof-of-Concept using OpenAI's Preparedness Framework (with Sam Coggins, Alexander K. Saeri, Katherine A. Daniell, Lorenn P. Ruster, Jessie Liu, and Jenny L. Davis), Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency
• Digital Welfare States: How Technology is Changing Social Protection (with Jenna Imad Harb), Oxford University Press
• "I Am Not Officially a Public Health Person": Informal Risk Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Hiba Siraj, Samantha Whitman, Kathleen Pine, and Myeong Lee), SSM-Qualitative Research in Health
• Images of Law and Violence in Everyday Life: Lessons from the Regulation of Sports (with Tate Morgan and Meredith Edelman), Annual Review of Law and Social Science
• Information, Technology, and Control in a Changing World (second edition with Blayne Haggart and Natasha Tusikov), Palgrave Macmillan
• “It’s Like Trying to Stop the Sea with a Colander”: How Australian Public Servants Navigate Tensions in the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Policy Work (with Helen Dickinson and Esther McVicar), Cambridge Forum for AI: Law and Governance
• When Plans Become Performative: Gender Equity and Regulatory Ritualism as a Sport Governance Challenge (with Jude Blacklock, Tate Morgan, and Kate Starre), Sport Management Review

crime and deviance, health and wellbeing, intersecting inequalities, law and society, regulation and governance, science and technology studies

Current research supervisees

• Primary supervisor: Sandra Elhelw, Suvradip Maitra, Esther McVicar, Maegan Miccelli
• Associate supervisor: Gita Putri Damayana, Madeleine Dove, Kristian Hollins, Asaf Lone, Emma Mills, Kate Starre, Viona Wijaya

Courses taught

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