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Peter Downs

Peter is Founding Director of The Inclusion Club and Manager of Play by the Rules – a national initiative to promote safe, fair and inclusive sport.

Dr Simon Darcy

University of Technology Sydney

Simon Darcy specialises in developing inclusive organisational approaches for diversity groups.

Richard Nicholson

Richard Nicholson is a Paralympic powerlifting and athletics competitor and has competed at five successive Paralympic Games from the 1996 to 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Mary Hums

Mary A. Hums is Professor of Sport Administration at the University of Louisville and Research Fellow with the Inclusive Sports Initiative at the Institute for Human Centered Design.

Erin O'Brien

Dr Erin O'Brien

Dr Erin O’Brien is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, at the Queensland University of Technology, where she teaches and researches in the areas of politics and social justice.

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Michael Woods

Michael is a Director of The Inclusion Club, Independent Sports Consultant at Woods Sport, specialising in inclusion, para-sport and e-learning and Founder of Inclusive Sport Design, a social business helping clubs and sport organisations take action on inclusion.

Ken Black

A practitioner in inclusive physical activity for almost 40 years, Ken is currently Senior lecturer and project advisor on inclusive sport at the University of Worcester, UK.

Dr David Legg

David is Professor of Sport Management at Mt. Royal University and Research Fellow with the Inclusive Sports Initiative at the Institute for Human Centered Design.

Eli Wolff

Eli is Director of both the Sport and Development Project at Brown University and the Inclusive Sports Initiative at the Institute for Human Centered Design.

Lesley Evans Ogden

Lesley is a regular contributor at BBC Earth, Natural History, New Scientist and BioScience and an alumna of the Science Communications Program at the Banff Centre and the Santa Fe Science Writers Workshop.

Mark Bullock

Mark is passionate about inclusion, wellbeing, healthy lifestyles & nutrition. Extensive experience of delivering sports programmes in developing countries. Experienced public speaker.

Susan Marron

Susan Marron is a lecturer in the School of Arts Education and Movement at Dublin City University Institute of Education, Dublin, Ireland.

Martin Mansell

Martin Mansell

Martin has been involved and worked in the field of Disability Sport for over 50 years, first as a competitor (including 2 Paralympic Games, 2 World and 2 European Championships) then as a professional working both at grassroots and elite level.

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