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Ken Black
Founding Director – The Inclusion Club
Ken has worked as a practitioner in the area of inclusive physical activity and disability sport for over 40 years. This has included 10 years working in special education, 2 years for a disability sport organisation (UK Sports Association for People with Learning Disability), 6 years as a disability sports development officer for Leeds City Council sports development team, 6 years as the Inclusive Sport Officer with the Youth Sport Trust (the UK-based national youth sport agency), 3 years as Sports Consultant with the Australian Sports Commission, (working in the Disability Sport Unit), and 2 years setting-up a research and development centre on disability sport at Loughborough University.
He works independently as an advisor and consultant (previously in this role from 2008-2013). His most recent position was as inclusion advisor & senior lecturer at University of Worcester (2013-2018). During this time, he chaired the Organising Group which planned and hosted the European Congress of Adapted Physical Activity at the university in July 2018. Ken authored (January-March 2019) some new video and activity resources for both Youth Sport Trust and LimbPower for use on their websites.
Ken was a Trustee of the Board of the Activity Alliance (formerly English Federation of Disability Sport) from 2011-2018.
He is a Scot, originally from Clydebank, near Glasgow.
Ken’s contributions
Real Lives (Part 1)
It’s my very great pleasure to bring you this first episode for The Inclusion Club. Let’s get into it. In 2009-10 I was researching for a book chapter called ‘Coaching Children in Sport’. My chapter was entitled ‘Coaching Disabled Children’ and I looked at three specific areas: Continue Reading Real Lives (Part 1)