3 // Paul Bowell // Women Australian Rules footballers' subjective experiences of digital self-tracking

Paul Bowell is a PhD candidate within the Sport Innovation Research Group at Swinburne University of Technology.

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Paul’s research project seeks 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 he aims to develop a framework that empowers women footballers to maximise their performance through digital self-tracking, while promoting positive self-image and women athletes’ identity.

Paul obtained a Bachelor of Arts with Honours specialising in sociology from The Australian National University. Paul’s Honours project, in which he achieved First-Class Honour ...