Martin Mansell

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Presentations

Paralympic athletes - more different than the rest? - Play the Game 2009 (PP Pdf.)

CV

Martin Mansell has been involved in disability sport since 1975. First as a competitor (last games 1998 Seoul, 1 gold 2 sliver 1 bronze, Swimming) and later as a coach. In 1990, as a result of the sports minister's report Building on Ability which was an outcome from the 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games, he was appointed as one of the first Professional Sports Development Officers for People with Disabilities within a Local Education Authority in England.

In 1989 has was elected as Chairperson of the British Paralympic Association Athletes’ Committee and later as Chairperson of the International Paralympic Committee Athletes’ Commission and was a Director of the British Paralympic Association till January 2005 when he stood down.  He has been working with 2012 on their work on inclusion looking at Education and the Community.

I has worked for a number of organisations and in 1998 set up MJM Associates as advisers on disability sport. I have worked with organisation such as the Youth Sport Trust and NASUWT as a consultant to name just a few. In addition to this he has been involved in a number of other projects in a self-employed capacity, which include the following.

• Health Education Authority (Active for Life Disability project)
  
  
• Disability Equality Training (DET)
  
  
• Aspire Tutor Training (DET)
  
  
• Sports Coach UK (Working with Disabled People and Coaching Disabled Performers Senior Tutor)
  
  
• Trainer to a number of Local Education Authorities
  
  
• Trainer on Education and Paralympics for DCSF and the NASUWT
  
  
• British Paralympic Assoction (BPA)
  
  
• International Paralympic Committee Education Committee
  
  
• Working with London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Education
  
  

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