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Dr Sean Gorman, author of Brotherboys<\/em>, a book about the Krakouer brothers and their journey through football, has been appointed as a Research Fellow at Curtin University of Technology.<\/p>\n He joins Curtin’s Centre of Aboriginal Studies (CAS) and plans to research the transition of Indigenous players into and out of the Australian Football League (AFL).<\/p>\n \u201cMy research will focus on the pressures faced by players and what clubs can do to improve the experiences of Indigenous players in the AFL,\u201d Dr Gorman said.<\/p>\n He hopes his research will result in the AFL improving the way it recruits and integrates Indigenous players into the sport.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope that once strategies for the AFL have been developed, they will serve as best practice for the employment of Indigenous staff in other organisations,\u201d said Dr Gorman.<\/p>\n Brotherboys<\/em> was the result of Dr Gorman\u2019s five-year PhD study which focused on AFL football legends, Jim and Phil Krakouer.<\/p>\n The book was recently turned into a play by local writer Reg Cribb.<\/p>\n CAS Director, Associate Professor Anita Lee Hong, welcomed Dr Gorman\u2019s appointment to CAS.<\/p>\n \u201cSean\u2019s research will be important to ensure more equitable workplaces for Indigenous people in the AFL and beyond,\u201d said Associate Professor Lee Hong.<\/p>\n Dr Gorman is currently completing research on the AFL Indigenous team of the century and hopes to have it published.\u00a0<\/p>\n He previously spent 13 years working in various roles teaching Australian Indigenous Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr Sean Gorman has been appointed as a Research Fellow at Curtin University of Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17259","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community","category-research"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17259"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}