Person DS/UK/66 Brackenridge; Celia; Professor Brackenridge Celia Female BRUNEL Professor Celia Brackenridge, a pioneering campaigner and researcher into gender equality and child abuse in sport, Celia Brackenridge was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and grew up in Staines and Ashford, Middlesex. She won a Middlesex County Scholarship to attend the Lady Eleanor Holles School for Girls in Hampton, Middlesex. She studied at study Cambridge and Leeds universities She began her career as a Physical Education teacher at Bournemouth School for Girls, but moved within one year into lecturing in higher education when she was headhunted to take a lecturing job at the then-Lady Mabel College (LMC) near Rotherham. The merger of LMC into Sheffield City Polytechnic, later renamed Sheffield Hallam University located Celia within a much wider academic and professional community than before. Celia was selected for the England lacrosse squad for the first time in 1969 and represented England for 13 years until 1982. She was then the national team coach from 1985 to 1986, including the Lacrosse World Cup in the USA. Celia has drawn on both natural and social science paradigms in her work. She has pursued particular interests in gender and social justice themes but in her early career also conducted investigations into the evolution and ethology of territorial sports. She is strongly committed to feminist perspectives in scholarship and practice and has worked with many sport organisations at home and overseas to develop and strengthen gender equity and child protective interventions. Celia was a founding member of WomenSport International. In her international advisory roles on child protection in sport, Celia assisted in the development of safeguarding policies for both UNICEF and the International Olympic Committee. Celia worked from 2005 to her retirement in 2010 as Director of Brunel's Centre for Youth Sport and Athlete Welfare. She then became research professor and a member of the Brunel Centre for Sport, Health and Welbeing. Celia received an OBE in the New Years Honours list Jan 2012, for services to Equality and Child Protection in Sport. She has honorary degrees from the University of Chichester and Brunel University. Celia was awarded the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award in December 2016. Honorary Fellow 2014, OBE Jan 2012, Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award in December 2016 Brunel Link 2012 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes Acsrpjc 21/05/2012 ADMINISTRATION\acsrpjc 24/05/2018 625353bf-d01c-47bb-b1dc-ed418d8fc53d