KEN BLACK

Founding Director, The Inclusion Club (www.theinclusionclub.com)
Independent Advisor, Inclusive Physical Activity & Disability Sport

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 was a Trustee of the Board of the Activity Alliance (formerly English Federation of Disability Sport) from 2011-2018. He is now a Trustee of the Board of LimbPower (appointed March 2021) which exists to support individuals who have limb impairments in physical activity, sport and the arts. He is a Scot, originally from Clydebank, near Glasgow.

Presentations

• Engaging young people in physical activity through collaborative, cooperative, non-competitive games (Abstract)
• Engaging young people in physical activity through collaborative, cooperative, non-competitive games (Presentation)
• Inclusive practice using examples from four ‘games families’ (Abstract)