National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms
Consider the position of one or more national research centres to support the research infrastructure (GC)
Updates
June 2022
The Government's Review of the Gambling Act 2005 has called for evidence looking specifically at barriers to high quality research to inform regulation or policy making, as well as models which may improve outcomes when compared to the current system.
In addition, the academic community continues to progress research into the harms associated with gambling, including the recent launch of the Gambling Harms Research Centre, the University of Bristol's independent research hub funded by GambleAware. The hub will look at issues such as what initiates harmful gambling and the role that social inequalities play in exacerbating gambling harms.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2022/may/gambling-harms-research-centre.html
October 2021
The Government's Review of the Gambling Act 2005 has called for evidence looking specifically at barriers to high quality research to inform regulation or policy making, as well as models which may improve outcomes when compared to the current system.
In addition to Greo's research hub, which was designed to make initial steps towards addressing issues around linking research to policy, GambleAware have also begun an eight-month grant award process to establish an Academic Research Hub specialising in gambling harms research.
https://www.greo.ca/en/national-strategy.aspx
https://www.begambleaware.org/for-professionals/project/academic-research-hub
April 2021
The future funding of research is part of the Government's Review of the Gambling Act 2005. In addition, there is work underway by a number of organisations to consider future research and the role of centres or hubs.