New Directions in Gambling Research

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New Directions in Gambling Research

• Dr Carolyn Downs
• University of Salford

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The Team

• Dr Carolyn Downs (Salford)
• Gambling-related Debt, Women Gambling, Bingo,
  Betting Shops, Young People, Awareness Education,
  Social Responsibility, Online Communities,
  Gambling as Popular Leisure, Gambling Cultures
• Ryan Woolrych (MMU)
• Betting Shops, Place Theory, Action Research,
  Hard-to-Reach Social Groups, Gambling-related
  Debt, Online Gambling Communities
• Dr Ian McHale (Salford)
• Quantitative Element of GAD Study
• Dr Karl Dayson (Salford)
• Debt, Credit, Micro-finance initiatives.
• Dr Illana Mountian (MMU)
• Qualitative research, Cultures of Addiction,
  Marginalised Communities
• Marc Etches (Salford)
• Public Policy and Regulation

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Sources of Funding

• Charities / Third Sector
• JRF, Templeton, Gamcare, MAT and etc
• Industry
• Regulators
• Gambling Commission
• Government
• Research Councils
• ESRC
• AHRC
• EPSRC

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Gambling and Debt

• Pathfinder study
• Gamcare and Money Advice Trust
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• RIHSC
• Makes clear link between gambling and society
• Salvation Army
• Social Work Centres
• Reporting July 2009

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Significance of Pathfinder

• Highlighted paucity of research
• New body of expertise
• Links with third sector
• Industry involvement
• Credit Sector Input (Banks and Finance Houses)
• Statutory Agency involvement
• Particular value of qualitative work
• Illustrated potential extent of impacts
• Established missing voices

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Foundation for GAD Project

• RiGT and ESRC Call
• 1.2m
• Priority Area Impacts of Gambling
• Debt and Gambling
• Family and Social Network Impacts
• Economic Impacts
• 12 March 2009
• 1 August 2009
• Extremely competitive

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Partnership Working

• Money Advice Trust
• Citizens Advice Bureau
• Advice UK
• Gamcare
• Salvation Army Social Work Centres
• Manchester Money Advice
• Insolvency Service

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ESRC Seminar Series

• Gambling and Society
• Peripatetic
• Seminar Themes
• Developing Social Responsibility Policy into
  Practice
• Educating Society Developing Gambling Awareness
• Communities and Gambling Establishing Impacts
  and Creating Dialogues
• Identifying and Supporting the Vulnerable the
  role of wider society
• Social Perspectives on Gambling Gambling
  Cultures and Popular Mass Leisure

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Finding a Place for Betting Shops

• ESRC Small Grant
• Altered by Licensing Officers
• Community Approach
• Recognises the Social Nature of Pursuit
• Seeks Tripartite Approach
• Community, Industry, Users.
• Innovative Participatory Action Research
  Methodology

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Action Research

• Involves participants
• Acknowledges Expertise of Lived Experience
• Design
• Execution
• Analysis
• Role of Expert Facilitation
• Range of Techniques
• Knowledge Cafes, Diaries, Action Learning Sets,
  Workshops, Vox Pop
• Links and Legacies

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Social Networking

• EPSRC Standard Grant
• Two year Action Research Project
• Fits with existing ESPACH project
• Virtual Gambling
• Young People
• Changing Attitudes and Values

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Advertising and Social Marketing

• International Project
• University of Toronto
• Professor David Korn and Dr Jennifer Reynolds
• Templeton Foundation

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Grass-Roots Project

• Developing New Forms of Social Responsibility
• Industry involvement
• Hard-to-Reach Groups
• Awareness Education
• Peer development
• Peer Delivery
• Supported Action Learning Sets
• Expert Facilitation

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c.downs_at_salford.ac.uk

• 07952 272 662