Chaired a symposium on 'Challenges to Children in Sport' at the European College of Sport Sciences Congress at Estoril, Portugal in July.

Delivered a keynote speech at a Symposium on 'Elite Young Athletes ­ Biopsychosocial Approaches to Sporting Excellence', held at the Hong Kong Sports Institute in March.

Completed a research evaluation of The Football Association's Respect behaviour improvement programme. This research will continue in 2009.

Completed a review of sexual orientation in sport to inform compliance among sport organisations with new legal and human rights legislation.

Named as Distinguished International Scholar of the American Association for Applied Sport Psychology: award to be made at the 2008 AAASP conference.

Led an expert consultation with UNICEF on violence to children in sport, held at the Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, as a result of which two research contracts were awarded for a team comprising Celia Brackenridge (Principal Investigator) (UK), Sandra Kirby (Canada), Trisha Leahy (Hong Kong) and Kari Fasting (Norway).

Won the US Women's Sports Foundation Darlene Kluka Research Award which was collected at the AAPHERD conference in Baltimore in March.

In the first week of October 2006 Celia acted as Programme Consultant to the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission who hosted three days of meetings on Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport. As a result, a Consensus Statement was agreed that will go to the IOC main Board for ratification on Nov 30th. The recommendations include harassment and abuse prevention work across all sports.

Celia gave the inaugural speech at the opening of a new Global Centre for Social Change through Women's Leadership and Sport at Kennesaw University, Georgia, USA in October.

During the World Conference on Women and Sport in Kumamoto, Japan in May, Celia was part of a plenary panel: she presented a digest of her research and its impact on cultural change in sport.

In October Celia presented a paper to the American Association of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry conference in Toronto. From November 1st she took up a new post as Chair of Youth Sport at Brunel University where she plans to develop a research centre focusing on youth welfare, rights and protection in sport.

Together with colleagues from York University, Queen Mary College Edinburgh and York St John College, Celia prepared bids to the ESRC for pilot research work and a seminar series on homophobic bullying in sport. A book chapter on the same theme was submitted which will appear in C. Aitchison and S. Scraton. (eds.) Sport and Gender Identities: Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities to be published by Routledge.

In July 2005 the International Children's Games was hosted by the City of Coventry at Warwick University campus, with 70 teams from over 50 nations: Celia is chairing the organising committee for an International Symposium on Child Welfare in Sport, in collaboration with the NSPCC/Sport England Child Protection in Sport Unit.

Child welfare and Long Term Athlete Development were integrated in a review of parenting programmes and products conducted by Celia during the spring on behalf of Sport England, the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit, the Youth Sport Trust and sports coach UK. The long term aim of this work is to develop parent education programmes tailored to youth sport that will safeguard children and at the same time optimise their performance potential.