Secured the contract to host the 2012 pre-Olympic conference (International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport). Celia will chair the Local Organising Committee on behalf of the Brunel 2012 ICSEMIS Consortium

Chaired a symposium on prevention of harassment in sport at the European College of Sport Sciences annual congress in Oslo, Norway

Completed teaching the first year of a new masters degree at Brunel in Child Welfare and Protection in Sport

Completed monitoring research on the Football Association's Respect Programme

Worked for the International Olympic Committee on research to underpin educational materials for IFs, NOCs and the Youth Olympic Games on the prevention of sexual harassment and abuse

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.