HI,
I'M HENRIETTE CANINO
(née Ruhrmann)
I'm a PhD researcher based in California and London - my doctoral project focuses on how policymakers and innovators can build a common knowledge base to develop tech policy frameworks reflective of societal values.
I offer independent data design services, including data analysis, visualization, and interpretation. For more information on how I can support your team or organization, e-mail me at datadesign@henriettecanino.com.
ABOUT
I am a researcher, data analyst, and PhD candidate at University College London’s Department for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy. My background is in Public Policy, I hold a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
My doctoral project in the area of legislative science advice seeks to explain how innovators and legislators engage and exchange the knowledge necessary to align innovation with societal needs and values.
Previously, I have worked on policy strategies around inclusive AI - in particular, in facial recognition and digital ID systems - implications of algorithmic bias, and sustainable innovation in the private sector (as a student consultant for Google).
I have held research positions at University of California, Berkeley's CITRIS Policy Lab, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and University of California, San Diego and gained practical policy experience at a U.S. Senator's office and the European Parliament.
PUBLICATIONS
Tyler, C., Akerlof, K. L., Allegra, A., Arnold, Z., Canino, H., Doornenbal, M. A., Goldstein, J. A., Budtz Pedersen, D., & Sutherland, W. J. (2023). AI tools as science policy advisers? The potential and the pitfalls. Nature, 622(7981), 27–30. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02999-3
Canino, H. (2022). Transferkanäle zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik: Eine kontextualisierte Übersicht. In K. S. Kiprijanov, T. Philipp, & T. Roelcke (Hrsg.), Transferwissenschaften: Mode oder Mehrwert? Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1305521
Wagner, N., Ruhrmann, H., Kölbel, A., Zoth, L., Sorge, A. (2023). Transformatives Regieren für systemischen Wandel:
Für eine neue Art der Politikgestaltung in Deutschland. iit Berlin. ISBN: 978-3-89-750250-5. Available at: https://www.iit-berlin.de/en/publication/transformatives-regieren-fuer-systemischen-wandel-fuer-eine-neue-art-der-politikgestaltung-in-deutschland/
Ruhrmann, H. (2022). Möglichkeitenraum wissenschaftliche Politikberatung: Evidenz und Denkanstöße für das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem. DUZ Special Issue "Transferwissenschaft - Von der Vision zur Praxis". DUZ Medienhaus. Berlin. Available at: https://www.duz-special.de/media/baf43cd48414beeb49d9c0f10c201bffdc160028/13a56d2c33e0d6340956bfa326da7b0dd038fd50.pdf
Ruhrmann, H., Altinalana-Widenka, L. (2022). Transfer institutionell stärken: ja - aber wie? Transfer für Forschung und Innovation mit breitem Impact. DUZ Special Issue "Transferwissenschaft - Von der Vision zur Praxis". DUZ Medienhaus. Berlin. Available at: https://www.duz-special.de/media/baf43cd48414beeb49d9c0f10c201bffdc160028/13a56d2c33e0d6340956bfa326da7b0dd038fd50.pdf
Ruhrmann, H., Fritsch, M., & Leydesdorff, L. (2022). Synergy and policy-making in German innovation systems: Smart Specialisation Strategies at national, regional, local levels? Regional Studies, 56(9), 1468–1479. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1872780
Muschner, A., Schütz, F., Ruhrmann, H., Karahan, M., Kiprijanov, K., & Johannsen, T. (2021). Missionsorientierung im Transfer. https://publica.fraunhofer.de/entities/publication/0abf61e1-17fa-4b6a-ad00-af691501ea6f/details
Ruhrmann, H., Fritsch, M., Leydesdorff, L. (2020). Smart Specialization Strategies at National, Regional, or Local Levels? Synergy and Policy-Making in German Systems of Innovation. Jena Economic Research Paper 2020–007. Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Available at: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/jrpjrpwrp/2020-007.htm.
Muschner, A., Ruhrmann, H., Jütting, M., Terfurth, L., Altinalana, L., & Blumrich, F. (2020). Zukunft von Transfer 2030+. https://publica.fraunhofer.de/entities/publication/4b1e0ce3-ed3e-4188-b0bc-23d1411219c2/details
On technology governance.
Faddoul, M., Ruhrmann, H., & Lee, J. (2020). A Risk Assessment of a Pretrial Risk Assessment Tool: Tussles, Mitigation Strategies, and Inherent Limits. Preprint Manuscript. Available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.07299
Ruhrmann, H. (2019) Facing the Future: Protecting Human Rights in Policy Strategies for Facial Recognition Technology in Law Enforcement. CITRIS Policy Lab Reports. Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute Policy Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Available at: https://citris-uc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Facing-the-Future_Ruhrmann_CITRIS-Policy-Lab.pdf
Nonnecke, B., Ruhrmann, H., Sampson Geroski, A. (2019) Responsible Digital ID: Effects of Data Governance Policies and Practices on Human Rights. CITRIS Policy Lab Reports. Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute Policy Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Available at: https://citrispolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Responsible-Digital-ID_CITRIS-Policy-Lab_September-2019.pdf
Ruhrmann, H. (2018) Political Polarization: Aligning the interests of private tech and the public. In Klynge, C. (Ed.) Technology and governance in the 21st century - a millenial perspective (pp. 36-39) Office of the Tech Ambassador of Denmark / Berkeley Public Policy Journal Blog. Available at: https://bppj.berkeley.edu/2018/11/29/aligning-the-interests-of-private-tech-and-the-public-to-reduce-political-polarization/
CONFERENCES
Canino, H. (2024). Panel Organizer on: AI and Science Policy Advice. 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, USA. February 15-17, 2024.
Canino, H. (2024). Predicting Researchers' Policy Engagement: A Behavioral Model For Science Advice. 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, USA. February 15-17, 2024.
Canino, H. (2023). Rewarding Science-Policy Engagement: An interdisciplinary argument for incentive structures promoting policy impact. 2023 4S Meeting. Honolulu, HI, USA. November 8-11, 2023.
Ruhrmann, H. (2023). Keynote Speech on the Transformative Policy Cycle at the "Evening of Transformative Governance." Dark Horse Agency. Berlin, Germany. June 14, 2023.
Ruhrmann, H. (2023). Quantitative Modeling of Science-Policy Engagement – Leveraging Behavioral Science to Strengthen Legislative Science Advice. 2023 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy. Atlanta, GA, USA. May 24-26, 2023.
Organizer at the Transfer Forum 2022 – Von der Vision zur Praxis. Berlin, Germany, November 21-22, 2022.
Accepted: Ruhrmann, H. (2022). Engaging Science: Leveraging Behavioural Science in an Interdisciplinary Study to Model and Facilitate Researcher-Legislator Engagement. 2022 APPAM Fall Research Conference. Washington, DC, USA. November 17-19, 2022.
Accepted: Ruhrmann, H. (2022). Reconfiguring Science: How Quantitative Modelling Can Inform Novel Institutional Structures To Promote Science-Policy Engagement. Society for the Social Studies of Science Meeting 2022. Cholula, Mexico. December 7-10, 2022.
Ruhrmann, H. (2022). Engaging Science: Leveraging Behavioural Science In An Interdisciplinary Research Design To Model And Facilitate Researcher-Legislator Engagement. Science and Democracy Network Annual Meeting. Harvard University. Boston (MA), USA. Juli 27-30, 2022.
Ruhrmann, H. (2022). Engaging science: leveraging behavioural science to model and support researcher-legislator engagement. EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2022. Leiden, The Netherlands. July 13-16, 2022.
Ruhrmann, H. (2022). Panel Organizer on: Innovations at the science-policy interface: closing the gap for early career researchers’ policy engagement. EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2022. Leiden, The Netherlands. July 13-16, 2022.
Accepted: Ruhrmann, H. (2022). Science-policy engagement as behaviour - how quantitative modelling can inform new organisational structures in the research system to promote engagement. European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI Forum) Conference 2022. Utrecht, Netherlands. June 1-3, 2022.
Ruhrmann, H. (2022). Science-policy engagement in mission-oriented research - How quantitative modelling can inform new organisational structures in the research system to promote engagement. European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI Forum) Early Career Conference 2022. Manchester, United Kingdom. May 9-10, 2022.
Ruhrmann, H. (2022). Wissen als Verantwortung – Wie Forschungsorganisationen den Austausch mit der Politik stärken können. Fachtagung „Transferwissenschaften – Transdisziplinarität – Wissenstransfer: Mode oder Mehrwert?“. Technical University Berlin. Berlin, Germany. April 21-22, 2022.
Ruhrmann, H. (2021). How can legislators and innovators create a common knowledge base around facial recognition technology? A case study on knowledge exchange at the science-policy interface. International Conference on Science Advice to Governments 2021. Montréal, Canada, August 30-September 2, 2021.
Organizer at the Transfer Forum 2020: Zukunft von Transfer. Berlin, Germany, September 14, 2020.
Ruhrmann, H. (2020). Smart Specialization Strategies at National, Regional, or Local Levels? Synergy and Policy-making in German Systems of Innovation. Triple Helix Conference 2020. Tampere, Finland, June 15-17, 2020.
Ruhrmann, H. (2019) How can the future of work be shaped responsibly? Early Findings from a Quadruple Helix Collaboration Social Lab in the Context of Industry 4.0. 2019 2019 Triple Helix Congress on Responsible Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 30–October 1, 2019.
Faddoul, M., Ruhrmann, H., and Lee, J. (2019) Pre-Trial Algorithmic Risk Assessments: Value Conflicts, Inherent Limitations, and Harm-Mitigation By Design. Information Ethics Round-table Conference on Justice and Fairness in Machine Learning and Big Data, Boston, MA, April 5-7, 2019.
Ruhrmann, H. (2019) Inclusive E-Government: Current Structural and Content Accessibility Challenges in U.S. Federal Government Websites. 2019 Association of Public Policy Analysis & Management California Regional Student Conference, Irvine, CA, April 12-12, 2019. See the conference poster here.
Ruhrmann, H. (2019) Pre-Trial Algorithmic Risk Assessments: Value Conflicts, Inherent Limitations, and Harm-Mitigation By Design. 2019 Association of Public Policy Analysis & Management California Regional Student Conference, Irvine, CA, April 12-12, 2019. See the conference poster here.
REPORTS & BLOGS
IN THE PRESS
AESIS Network (2022, April 5). AESIS Newsletter April 2022 "Regional Collaboration & Clusters for Impact" (featured research). Available via the AESIS Network.
#GoodID Stories (Omidyar Network) (2021, July 5). #GoodID Stories - Henriette's Story. Available at https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ9cwq4DHLF/
AESIS Network (2021, June 30). AESIS Newsletter June 2021 "National and Regional Impact Frameworks" (featured research). Available via the AESIS Network.
Burt, C. (2019, September 25). CITRIS Policy Lab publishes digital ID and facial recognition reports to support ID2020 and Good ID | Biometric Update. https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/citris-policy-lab-publishes-digital-id-and-facial-recognition-reports-to-support-id2020-and-good-id
Weiss, E. (2019, September 26). Good ID Highlights Policies that Limit Police Use of Facial Recognition. FindBiometrics. https://findbiometrics.com/good-id-highlights-need-policies-limit-police-use-facial-recognition-092604/
INTERVIEW WITH #GOODID STORIES
TEACHING
Co-Instructor. Technical University Berlin. Engineering for Impact - Responsible Innovations. (2020-2022). For more information, see https://www.transferwissenschaft.de/en/practice-2/
Course Awarded the Prize for Exemplary Teaching 2023
Guest Speaker. University of Potsdam. Reflecting on Knowledge Transfer. (2022). For more information, see https://www.transferwissenschaft.de/en/practice-2/
Facilitator. University of California, Berkeley - Goldman School of Public Policy. PUB POL 297: Berkeley Public Policy Journal - Graduate Student Led Seminar. (2018). Co-Editor in Chief. See, for example, the Berkeley Public Policy Journal Fall 2018 Issue.
Graduate Student Instructor. University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business. UGBA101A: Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions. (2017-2018).
Personally awarded the Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching 2018
PRACTITIONER TOOL
AWARDS & HONORS
Co-Instructor in course awarded the Prize for Exemplary Teaching, 2023, Technical University Berlin.
Full doctoral scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V.).
Best Presentation Award, 2022, European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI Forum) Early Career Conference 2022 in Manchester.
Open Science Fellowship, 2020, InnOsci, a project of the Stifterverband.
Shortlisted for the Annual Graduate Thesis Award, 2019, University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy.
Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2018, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
Full scholarship for a year at the University of California, Berkeley, 2018, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Full scholarship for a year at the University of California, San Diego, 2015, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Full scholarship for undergraduate and graduate studies by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V.).