The Behavioural Insights Team are looking to recruit participants with Lived Experience to take part in some important research they are currently conducting.
OPPORTUNITY #1 – Barriers and facilitators to uptake and use of self-directed tools.
The BIT team are looking to recruit six affected others – those impacted by a loved one’s harmful gambling – to participate in a workshop about the challenges they experience and their solutions/ideas around self-directed tools. Involvement will take place between now and the end of September.
OPPORTUNITY #2 – Barriers and facilitators to uptake and use of self-directed tools.
The team are also seeking to recruiting six individuals who have used various tools to reduce their gambling, such as financial limits, self-exclusion, educational materials, etc, to also take part in a separate workshop.
As you may have noticed these are both the same project (so, technically not 2 BITS but 2 strands of one project), but seeking differently qualified participants. The idea being to hear not only from those who have had cause to use tools due to their own gambling but also those who have observed how gambling impacts their loved ones.
Both groups will be asked to review and comment on some of the researchers’ initial ideas about how to improve gambling tools – based on the research done so far.
Workshops will take 2 hours and participants will be compensated with a £75 voucher.
The exact date will depend on participants’ availability, but the team are hoping to run the workshop in mid-August, after normal working hours, which means time to apply is extremely tight
All participants would have to be aged 18 or over.
If you feel that you qualify for either group, and that you have time and willingness to help improve understanding, then the consent form for applying can de downloaded here –> Self Directed tools workshop information sheet- LE