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Dr Paul Bowell

Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology

Paul is a doctor of sociology specialising in the social effects of sport, technology and gender. Currently Paul is a researcher within the Sports Innovation Research Group at Swinburne University of Technology. Paul's doctoral research sort to understand how women Australian Rules footballers’ affectively experience digital self-tracking, and what impacts these interactions have on the player’s construction of selfhood, identity-making and body as athletes. With these insights Paul developed a policy framework offers empowerment women footballers to maximise their performance through digital self-tracking, while promoting positive self-image and women athletes’ identity. In 2022 Paul won the three-minute thesis award for the Sports Management Association of Australia and New Zealand.