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After qualifying as a Physical Education teacher at Bedford College of PE and Cambridge University, Celia worked at Sheffield Hallam and Gloucestershire Universities. She has been an honorary visiting professor at the German Sports University, Smith College Massachussetts and the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies at Huddersfield University. Celia has carried out major studies of women and leadership in leisure management and child protection in sport. She has researched abuse and harassment issues in sport since the late 1980s and was programme consultant to the IOC Medical Commission Consensus Statement on Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport (2007) and to the UNICEF working group on violence against children in sport (2007-08). She serves on the Research Committee of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers and also chairs the Research Task Force of the NSPCC/Sport England Child Protection in Sport Unit. Celia chaired the Leisure Studies Association from 1993-1995, edited the journal of Leisure Studies from 1995-1997. Celia is author of Spoilsports: Understanding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation in Sport, published by Routledge in 2001. In 2007 Celia was awarded the US Women's Sports Foundation's Darlene Kluka Research Award and in 2008 she received the Distinguished International Scholar Award of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. As a former international athlete
and captain of the England and Great Britain women's lacrosse
teams Celia has always maintained a keen interest in applying
research to practice. She is an accredited BASES Interdisciplinary
Researcher, a child protection tutor for Sports Coach UK and
for BASES and from 1984-1988 was the first Chair of the UK Women's
Sports Foundation.  Back
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