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Research governance framework 

The Gambling Commission's Research Governance Framework.

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30 April 2026

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• Research governance framework 

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• Introduction
• • Research at the Gambling Commission
  • The Research Governance Framework
  • Developing and updating the research governance framework
• Ethical gambling research
• • Introduction to ethical gambling research
  • Core research principles and guidelines for ethical gambling research
  • Research involving AI
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Research misconduct
• Ethical approval for gambling research with human participants
• • Which projects require ethical approval
  • General considerations for ethical approval in gambling research
  • The ethical approval process
• The peer review process
• Roles and responsibilities
• Other external research involvement
• Research data governance
• • General principles of research data governance and research data safeguarding
  • What documents are required?
  • Data sharing
• Dissemination of research
• Monitoring, review and data corrections
• Appendices
• • Appendix 1: Ethics Checklist for projects requiring full Ethical Approval
  • Appendix 2: Data management plan checklist checklist
  • Appendix 3: Peer review checklist
  • Appendix 4: Research misconduct

7.3 - Data sharing

This research governance framework supports open research whereby research should be as open as possible and only closed when necessary. Open research helps to support and uphold transparency, openness, verification and reproducibility - improving public value, research integrity, re-use and innovation of research and data. As a minimum, all research should meet FAIR Data Principles: to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (opens in new tab). Unless there is a good reason not to do so, data and reports that do not contain confidential data should be made publicly available. For more information see also the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 (opens in new tab) and our Freedom of Information Requests page.

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Last updated: 30 April 2026

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