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, 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, regulatory science, and surveillance. Recent publications include:

• Addressing Gender Inequity in Australian Sports Leadership: A Postfeminist Policy Paradox (with Jude Blacklock, Kate Starre, and Tate Morgan), Journal of Sport and Social Issues
• Information, Technology, and Control in a Changing World (second edition with Blayne Haggart and Natasha Tusikov)
• The Future of Generative AI in Policy Work (with Jade Hart, Helen Dickinson, Vanessa McDermott, Shibaab Rahman, and James Connor)
• Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis (with Matt Ventresca)
• Unblackboxing How Sociotemporalities Inform AI Accountability: The Case of Targeted Advertising (with Faranak Hardcastle, Jenna Imad Harb, Ashlin Lee, John Noel Viaña, and Susan Halford), Social Science Computer Review

Prof Henne's forthcoming book, Digital Welfare States: How Technology is Changing Social Protection (with Jenna Imad Harb), is under contract with Oxford University Press.

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

Current research supervisees

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

Courses taught

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