In this month’s Member Spotlight, we caught up with Ellen McGrane, Research Associate in Alcohol and Public Health in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Althoug…

Call closes: December 31, 2025Application form We appreciate the barriers frequently faced by researchers from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) when seeking to attend conferences in the glo…

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Over the summer, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gambling Reform issued a call for evidence to support their upcoming inquiry on the future of gambling regulation in the UK. The inquiry is wi…

The Gambling Reform APPG’s inquiry will focus on the current gambling policy landscape and legislative framework in the UK. It will consider the efficacy of existing legislation – including the 200…

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Date and time: 12 June 2025 at 7 PM Hong Kong time; 2 PM Helsinki time; 12 PM London time; 7 AM Montréal time We have four exciting presentations on current research in video game advertising. Curio...

Steve Sharman is a Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London with interests in gambling, behavioural addictions and decision making. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the AFSG…

A new project led by Professor Matt Field at the University of Sheffield aims to significantly improve how people engage with treatment for gambling addiction, thanks to funding from the Academic Foru...

The Research Committee of the AFSG has recently confirmed the recipients for 2025’s major and minor exploratory grants. The funded projects will examine how to improve retention in NHS gambli…

Elena Petrovskaya is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Lincoln with research interests in both gaming and gambling. In this month’s Member Spotlight, she discusses the ethics o…

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There are many reasons why people pursue a career in gambling studies – for some it’s a deliberate choice, while for others it evolves out of something quite different. When Alex Russell, Associate…

In this discussion, our panel of experts will examine the forces driving the rise of online gambling, the emotional, health and economic harms of problem gambling, and how policy change and treatment ...

The Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling offers grant opportunities to advance the research needed to effectively prevent, reduce, and address gambling harm. The grants are available to support…

The Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling offers grant opportunities to advance the research needed to effectively prevent, reduce, and address gambling harm. The grants are available to support…

Call closes: 5pm GMT, January 30th 2025 The Current Advances in Gambling Research Conference will be hosted at the University of Glasgow on June 16th and 17th 2025. We’re delighted to ope…