Gambling Research Group
@gamresearchbu.bsky.social
Gambling Research Group at Bournemouth University, conducting research into how to reduce gambling harms and promote safer gambling strategies.
Our @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Gambling Research Group will be hosting an event entitled Addressing Gambling Harms in LGBTQIA+ Communities at the Highcliffe Marriot on the 24th of Nov. Everyone is welcome to attend - attendance is free but please register to attend using the link below.
LGBTQIA+ Experiences of Gambling-Related Harms
Exploring LGBTQIA+ gambling harm: research, lived experience voices, global insights & a collaborative think-tank for inclusive solutions.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Gambling Research Group will be hosting an event entitled Addressing Gambling Harms in LGBTQIA+ Communities at the Highcliffe Marriot on the 24th of Nov. Everyone is welcome to attend - attendance is free but please register to attend using the link below.
It's been a great day so far, with lots of interesting conversations with people about their experiences of matched betting #ESRCFestival
Today we are at the Dolphin Centre in Poole for our event 'Fast Cash, Hidden Costs', where we are presenting our work on the risks associated with matched betting. We are very pleased to be joined by our colleagues from ARA Recovery for All. Stop by and say hello if you are passing.
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It's been a great day so far, with lots of interesting conversations with people about their experiences of matched betting #ESRCFestival
Today we are at the Dolphin Centre in Poole for our event 'Fast Cash, Hidden Costs', where we are presenting our work on the risks associated with matched betting. We are very pleased to be joined by our colleagues from ARA Recovery for All. Stop by and say hello if you are passing.
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today we are at the Dolphin Centre in Poole for our event 'Fast Cash, Hidden Costs', where we are presenting our work on the risks associated with matched betting. We are very pleased to be joined by our colleagues from ARA Recovery for All. Stop by and say hello if you are passing.
Our matched betting event takes place this Sunday.
Matched betting: quick money or hidden trap?
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our matched betting event takes place this Sunday.
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Matched betting: quick money or hidden trap?
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Matched betting: quick money or hidden trap?
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
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New paper out now from members of our research group - bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Feasibility and acceptability of safer gambling interventions (social norms and goal setting) delivered via text message for those at low-to-moderate risk of gambling harm: a four-arm randomised contr...
Objectives To assess the feasibility and acceptability of three SMS-delivered safer gambling interventions (goal setting (GS), descriptive norms (DN), injunctive norms (IN)) aimed at reducing the tran...
bmjopen.bmj.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
New paper out now from members of our research group - bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
New paper out now from members of our research group - bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Feasibility and acceptability of safer gambling interventions (social norms and goal setting) delivered via text message for those at low-to-moderate risk of gambling harm: a four-arm randomised contr...
Objectives To assess the feasibility and acceptability of three SMS-delivered safer gambling interventions (goal setting (GS), descriptive norms (DN), injunctive norms (IN)) aimed at reducing the tran...
bmjopen.bmj.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
New paper out now from members of our research group - bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Members of the Gambling Research Group attended the Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research Colloquium yesterday, where we shared our own and listened to a range of interesting and insightful talks. Our thanks also to people in attendance who shared their own lived experiences.
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Members of the Gambling Research Group attended the Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research Colloquium yesterday, where we shared our own and listened to a range of interesting and insightful talks. Our thanks also to people in attendance who shared their own lived experiences.
Matched betting: quick money or hidden trap?
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Matched betting: quick money or hidden trap?
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 Interactive activities, lived experience stories & take-home toolkit.
Free drop-in event as part of #ESRCFestival #MatchedBettingDilemma #SaferGambling @ukri.org
🗓️ 2 Nov | 11am–5pm
📍 Gather, Ground Floor, The Dolphin Centre, Poole, Dorset BH15 1SZ
🎯 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...
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
August 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
'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...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gamblin...
What constitutes #transparency for #safergambling? Our latest review paper unpacks the concept and its implications. cdspress.ca/wp-content/u...
cdspress.ca
June 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
What constitutes #transparency for #safergambling? Our latest review paper unpacks the concept and its implications. cdspress.ca/wp-content/u...
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.
March 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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...
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
March 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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...
Timely, urgent, and vital reading. Read here:
www.greo.ca/Modules/Evid...
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
March 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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...
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...
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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February 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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...
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 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
January 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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).
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
January 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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...
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
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
January 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
A blog post by group member Dr Emily Arden-Close about ongoing work funded by Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research