She founded the Women's Sports Foundation UK and also conducted research into the physical and sexual abuse of young sportspeople by coaches.
After graduating, she worked as a teacher at Bournemouth School for Girls and then as a lecturer at Lady Mabel College of Physical Education.
[4] She was influential in introducing American innovations in equipment and playing style (e.g. plastic lacrosse sticks and ambidextrous stick-handling skills) to the UK.
[5][6] She also conducted research into the physical and sexual abuse of young sportspeople by coaches, for which she received hate mail and experienced obstruction from sports governing bodies.
[2] An obituary in The Sunday Times reflected: "As it turned out, the world of football was not ready for a gay former lacrosse international rummaging through its dirty linen".
Brackenridge was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to equality and child protection in sport.