Gambling Research Group
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Gambling Research Group at Bournemouth University, conducting research into how to reduce gambling harms and promote safer gambling strategies.
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Matched betting: quick money or hidden trap?
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
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🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
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'm quoted in a Times Higher Education article today on the new system for gambling harms research funding. We need more people doing work in this area, even if it makes it more competitive for established researchers to secure funding.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gamblin...
Gambling research ‘at risk of going backwards’ despite new levy
UKRI handed more cash for betting-related research but campaigners claim ‘industry-friendly’ funding call stops ‘fresh start’ from old regime
www.timeshighereducation.com
What constitutes #transparency for #safergambling? Our latest review paper unpacks the concept and its implications. cdspress.ca/wp-content/u...
cdspress.ca
It was great to see our CEO of the Gordon Moody Association, Monica Shafaq, on BBC Breakfast this morning to talk about the launch of International Gambling Harms Awareness Day and our #BehindTheBet campaign. I am proud to be a Trustee of such an important organisation.
Our group's research featured in GREO’s latest snapshot on gambling marketing by influencers and its impact on children.
Timely, urgent, and vital reading. Read here:
www.greo.ca/Modules/Evid...
What is the impact of gambling marketing by social media influencers on children and young people?
www.greo.ca
An article by Gambling Research Groups members on our GambleAware funded work on social norms and goal setting has been included in the GREO Evidence Centre - available at www.greo.ca/Modules/Evid...
Exploring people’s experiences of social norms and goal setting interventions to support safer gambling
www.greo.ca
The video of Gambling Research Group members
Dr Ruijie Wang and Dr Emily Arden-Close speaking about the relative harm of different gambling products at Café Scientifique in Bournemouth is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZ2...
Gambling Jan 2025
YouTube video by Cafe Scientifique Highcliffe
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Gambling Research Group member @Ruijieisjerry has spoken to Dorset Breakfast about @GambleAware funded research on the harms that are associated with different gambling products. Listen to it at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (52 minutes 53 seconds in).
Steve Harris - Dorset Breakfast 30/01/2025 - BBC Sounds
BCP Children's services goes from inadequate to good.
www.bbc.co.uk
Identifying people who may be at risk of experiencing gambling harms early on is a key aspect of prevention and treatment, provided that GPs are other healthcare staff are given sufficient training and support to do this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NICE asks GPs to identify potential gambling addicts
The health watchdog says gambling should be given the same weight as alcohol and nicotine addiction.
www.bbc.co.uk
Starting conversations about harmful gambling with ethnic minority women - gamblingharms.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/01/13/s...

A blog post by group member Dr Emily Arden-Close about ongoing work funded by Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research
Starting conversations about harmful gambling with ethnic minority women – Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research
gamblingharms.blogs.bristol.ac.uk