Fellow’s Profile
Ellen Buttrick
Fellow’s Profile
Ellen Buttrick
Increasing the opportunities for Mixed Ability Rowing in the UK
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Enhancing Inclusion and Community through Mixed Ability Rowing
Countries
Fellowship year
2024
Supported by
Biography
Since 2018 I have proudly represented Great Britain as a Paralympic rower and in 2021 I became Paralympic Champion as part of the PR3 Mixed Coxed Four event in Tokyo 2020. Alongside full-time training I completed a MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities at the LSE School of Gender and was appointed trustee of British Rowing's Charitable Foundation, Love Rowing. Over this period I have also enjoyed volunteering for organisations across the sport and refugee sector.
The aim of my Fellowship is to enhance inclusion and build community through the Mixed Ability (MA) sport model in rowing. Ultimately, I hope to champion a more inclusive and welcoming approach to non-competitive rowing.
Mixed Ability sport, which I was first introduced to in 2018, is an inclusive approach to sports participation that welcomes individuals of all abilities, backgrounds and ages to participate together on an equal footing. Through learning overseas from sports delivering MA activities I hope to support the development of a larger MA rowing provision in the UK. The main topics that I intend to focus on are inclusive sports, mixed ability model, diversity and community building.
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All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.