Military Veterans are over 7 times more likely than the general population to experience severe gambling related harms, such as addiction and Gambling Disorder. If you would like to know why, and how we can help those who have given their service for us but now need others to come to their aid then please...Continue reading
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Public Health Wales – Public Health Researcher (Gambling Prevention)
Public Health Wales (Lechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru) are currently recruiting for a Public Health Researcher to support the development and coordination of the gambling prevention research-agenda across Public Health Wales and their partners. This is a specialist position, as reflected by the essential criteria (Evidence of knowledge of core Public Health competencies at masters level or...Continue reading
Framing the Role of Lived Experience in a new age of Commissioning
As the gambling harms sector transitions from RET into the Statutory Levy GLEN are hosting a webinar to look at the role which Lived Experience involvement will have. With October marking the half-way point in a Financial Year in which one commissioner leaves the stage and several others have taken over the mantle of funding...Continue reading
BIT – Self-Directed Tools for Harmful Gambling
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...
GambleAware enters Managed Closedown
GLEN are releasing the following statement following the public announcement last week that GambleAware are now in managed closedown, expected to be completed by end of March 2026. Our Statement It is with considerable sadness that we find ourselves acknowledging that the largest single charity operating in the Gambling Harms sector is closing down, and...Continue reading
London South Bank University – Exploring the feasibility of a gambling brief intervention
London South Bank University are currently looking for participants to help them with research into developing a gambling brief intervention. The intervention is designed to help people experiencing mild to moderate gambling-related problems to better understand how they think about their gambling and learn how to effectively respond to gambling-related thoughts. The team are hoping...Continue reading
NatCen – Suicide and Gambling Harms Research
NatCen (National Centre for Social Research) are looking for participants with experience of harmful gambling and who have also experienced suicidal thoughts or behaviours to take part in a research project they are currently conducting into the relationship between gambling behaviour, suicidality, and treatment support. The format of the involvement will be a 90 minute...Continue reading
SGEN – Gambling Harms and Neurodiversity
Thursday 26th June – 10am-12pm online webinar (zoom) The latest Scottish Gambling Education Network quarterly meeting takes place on Thursday 26th June. This online event (webinar) has a theme of “Gambling Harms and Neurodiversity” and will feature presentations and Q&A sessions around the intersection between gambling and Neurodiverse Conditions. SGEN quarterly events are always worth...Continue reading
Scottish Recovery Consortium Annual Conference
Thursday 12th June – Perth Concert Hall The annual SRC (Scottish Recovery Consortium) conference takes place in Perth (Scotland) is an in-person event bringing together research, policy, practice, and people to explore what recovery looks like in Scotland. The conference will highlight the most up to date research on recovery and share the work SRC...Continue reading
CAGR 2025
Mon/Tues 16/17th June – Glasgow University Buildings The annual Current Advances in Gambling Research conference takes place in Glasgow this year, running over the 16th and 17th June. This event brings together just about every academic and research team operating in the gambling harms research space and will feature dozens of presentations, discussions, and workshops...Continue reading