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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

8 - Dissemination of research

It is our duty to disseminate research outputs in a manner that reports the research and all the findings of the research accurately and without selection that could be misleading. It should be noted that there might be operational delays to publishing parts of the findings and data, resulting in not all outputs of a study being released at the same time.

Our publication calendar for our official statistics can be found at our When we release statistics and research page. Research outputs should be presented in a format understandable to the public with plain English summaries. Data relevant to findings should also be accessible if possible. More information can be found on our Using our official statistics and Availability of research data on the UK Data Service pages.

The publication of research results should include a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the analysis and the methodology as well as a disclosure of any conflicts of interests. Researchers must clearly acknowledge all sources used in their research (referencing). Research published on our website follows our accessibility guidelines.

This research framework also encourages:

• using short blogs outlining aims of the research, findings and implications for regulation
• using short films and animations to explain findings where appropriate
• meeting government standards for publication (opens in new tab).

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