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1970

Dr Bob Price OBE

Diploma in Physical Education Leader: Paralympics

2025

Dr Bob Price OBE began his career in Lincoln as a teacher of physical education for children with severe physical disabilities, before moving to the USA to qualify as a certified therapeutic recreation specialist. He earnt a PhD from the University of Illinois, which focused on psychological adjustment to spinal cord injury. On returning to the UK, he led the British Sports Association for the Disabled and served as Head of Delegation for the GB Paralympic Team at five summer and two winter games.

Alongside a civil service career, including a secondment to the French Ministry of Youth and Sports, he chaired the British Paralympic Association, presided over the European Paralympic Committee and later VIRTUS. Awarded an OBE in 1993 and admitted to the Paralympic Order in 2006, his final role was Chief Executive of a national charity for people with complex learning disabilities. Now retired, he remains engaged as Honorary Vice President of the British Paralympic Association.
Memories of my four years at Carnegie are many and varied but, given the direction my career took subsequently, possibly one of the most influential was the following: During our second year, we were required to teach swimming to visiting groups of local schoolchildren. The children were all brought by bus onto Beckett Park and were required to get changed in the cubicles which lined the teaching pool that, I believe, is still there.

As student teachers, we were required to stand outside the cubicle doors (one student per cubicle) and introduce whichever child emerged to a basic swimming lesson. When the door in front of me opened, there stood before me a young boy with only one leg. This was my first encounter with any form of disability and, not knowing what else to say, I simply told him to “hop in” and said I would join him in the water. Shortly after (possibly in year three), Carnegie provided us with an opportunity to visit the Pinderfields rehabilitation centre and, in year four, I chose a B.Ed module on what, in the language of the time, was called “the education of backward and handicapped children”. The rest, as they say, is history.

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My name's Bob Price. I was a student here at what I still know of as Carnegie between 1966 and 1970. I graduated as a PE teacher, chose to work with kids with physical disabilities and that over a period of time got me involved with disability sport, the Paralympic Games, and eventually I led the Great Britain team to seven Paralympics and had various different jobs within the Paralympic movement over 40, 50 years.

It's wonderful. I mean it... I've got an association with six or seven universities in Britain and in the States, but Carnegie is the one that sorry, Leeds Beckett, is the one that is closest to my heart because it's where I started as a youngster. And to think that they now acknowledge that something that I've done over the years is worth commemorating, it's like going full circle and being really pleased and really proud to have maintained the link with this institution by whatever name.

Well, that was a bit good, wasn't it? Yeah. I mean, in the olden days, if you wrote on the wall up here, they'd have kicked you out. So finding your name up there legitimately is quite good now. And I think what is, just be serious for a little minute, is the other names on the list that make me think 'wow, am I really part of that group?' Because there are some pretty impressive people up there.

Even before it was Leeds Beckett, back in the day when the Carnegie College of Physical Education, clearly we were all PE trained, so we were all sports minded, but I don't think any of that went away. And for all of the different names that the university has had, I think it's retained its love of sport, it's retained its attraction to people who enjoy sport and practise it at the highest level. And you probably wouldn't be able to think of a decade between the 50s and where we are now without being able to point out some really high performing sportsmen and women across a whole range of different disciplines. It's a pretty impressive legacy, I think.

Absolutely to go for it. And the opportunities now are so much better than they ever were, whether you have a disability or not. I mean, I'm really tickled pink not only to be here and to receive this award, but one of my guests is my grandson who is hoping to be a student here next year, 60 years after his granddad. And it's a, and he's a fabulous sportsman, absolutely. So I wouldn't wish him to be anywhere else, put it that way. Yeah.