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Gambling Survey for Great Britain - Annual report (2023): Official statistics
Gambling Survey for Great Britain - annual report (2023): Official statistics
Authors and disclosures of interest
Funding for study
This study was funded by the Gambling Commission and awarded to a consortium of researchers from the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and the University of Glasgow. The work was undertaken by the Health and Biomedical Surveys team within NatCen. Researchers within this team declare no current funding either directly or indirectly from the gambling industry, including GambleAware.
Authors
H. Wardle (HW), K. Ridout (KR), S. Tipping (ST), I. Maxineanu (IM), H. Wilson (HZW), S. Hill (SH)
Author disclosures
In the last 5 years, HW discloses grant funding for gambling-related research by the Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Wellcome Trust, the Commission (including their regulatory settlement fund), Office of Health Disparities and Improvements; Public Health England; Greater London Authority; Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority and the Department of Digital Culture Media and Sport.
In 2018 and 2019, HW received funding from GambleAware for a project on gambling and suicide.
HW declares consulting fees from the Institute of Public Health, Ireland and the National Institute for Economic and Social Research.
HW declares payment for delivery of seminars from McGill University, the University of Birmingham, John Hopkins University and from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
HW has been paid as an expert witness by Lambeth and Middlesborough Borough Councils.
HW declares travel costs paid by Gambling Regulators European Forum, the Turkish Green Crescent Society, Alberta Gambling Research Institute; the REITOX Academy (administered through the Austrian National Public Health Institute) and the University of Helsinki.
HW served as Deputy Chair of the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling between 2015 and 2020, remunerated by the Commission; is a Member of the WHO panel on gambling (ongoing) and provided unpaid advice on research to GamCare for their Safer Gambling Standard (until mid-2021).
HW runs a research consultancy for public and third sector bodies only. She has not, and does not, provide consultancy services to gambling industry actors.
In researching the gambling industry and their practices, HW declares occasional attendance at events where gambling industry actors are present (including industry-sponsored conferences).
As part of her work on the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB), HW is required by the Commission (the funder) to participate in events disseminating research findings to their stakeholders, which includes the industry. Her attendance at events where industry is present is independently funded and does not involve collaborations or partnerships with industry.
In the last 5 years, ST declares funding for gambling projects from the National Institute of Health Research and the Commission. In 2018 and 2019, she worked on a project funded by GambleAware.
Alongside the GSGB (funded by the Commission), NatCen authors work or have worked on projects funded by:
- NHS England (SH, KR, HZW, IM)
- Department for Health and Social Care (SH, KR, HZW)
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (SH, KR, HZW)
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (HZW)
- Department for Work and Pensions (HZW)
- Royal National Institute for Blind People (SH, IM)
- University College London (KR, IM)
- Wellcome Trust, with ESRC and NIHR (IM).
In 2017 and 2018 SH worked on 2 projects funded by the Commission: Gambling Behaviour in Great Britain 2015, and Gambling Behaviour in Great Britain 2016.
HZW has worked on the British Social Attitudes survey, which has funding from groups including the Government Equalities Office, the Nuffield Trust, and the King’s Fund. In 2021, HZW worked on Patterns of Play (funded by GambleAware).
Stakeholder engagement
Part of the research contract included conducting engagement activity with the Commission with 3 separate stakeholder groups:
- academics, policy makers and other researchers
- people with lived experience of gambling harms
- the gambling industry.
The Commission developed terms of reference for each group which are available upon request. Engagement sessions generally included an update on progress on the survey development and an opportunity to discuss key findings from the pilot and experimental stages of the study. The Commission controlled membership of these groups and hosted the sessions, with members from the NatCen or University of Glasgow consortium presenting at each one.
Expert review
The development of questions about adverse consequences from gambling were independently reviewed by Prof Robert William and Prof Rachel Volberg. The overall approach of the GSGB was reviewed by Professor Patrick Sturgis, whose report can be found here (opens in new tab). Professor Sturgis also reviewed sections within the GSGB the first annual report dealing with the impact of the changing methodology and comparison between this study and prior surveys.
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