Professor Kathryn (Kate) Henne is the Director of RegNet, the Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance, where she leads the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech). She took up the role after holding the Canada Research Chair in Biogovernance, Law and Society at the University of Waterloo.
An interdisciplinary scholar, Professor Henne studies how science and technology contribute to the governance of persons and populations. Much of her work examines the interface between intersecting inequalities and regulation. Her publications span a range of issues, including biomedicalisation, gender regulation, human enhancement and wellbeing, regulatory science, surveillance and technologies of policing.