A new paper interviews junior-sport team managers about who brings the oranges, then binds affiliated clubs' ground-hire rebate to filing those terms and no others.
Team managers' own terms for the half-time bag become the language of the ground-hire rebate
The team manager already knew who was bringing the oranges. What they did not have, until this week, was a published list of the words in which that knowledge is allowed to be filed.
A new paper from Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist, Director of the Master of Priority Studies, with Senior Research Fellow Anneke Tolan and Lecturer Iben Chikere, all of the School of Emergent Priorities, interviews 36 team managers across 22 suburban junior clubs. The managers describe the allocation in eight phrases of their own and decline the word fairness when it is offered. The Office of Community Engagement has now published those phrases as the Sideline Stewardship Lexicon, the sole admissible language of a quarterly Orange Duty Return. A return that uses any other term loses the club its ground-hire rebate for the following season, with no exception sustained for more than a single review cycle.
The next team manager was always going to be told in these words. We have only made the telling the thing a rebate can read.
— Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist, Director, Master of Priority Studies, School of Emergent Priorities
The release sits in the School’s longer record of taking a volunteer role at its word. Interviews on the sideline after training, coded in the phrases managers actually used, produced the closed list the Return now requires. A follow-up with twelve of the original managers finds every one of them speaking only in codebook phrases; ten describe the allocation itself as unchanged.
Dr Tolan said the study had stayed with the manager’s wording on purpose, and that the Return now asks for that wording back.
The full paper is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.6j5qog.