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Posted: 11.03.2025
Read the blog post on The Mental Elf website by Clare Gerada and Ruby Wiltshire of the Primary Care Gambling Service about our scoping review of UK-based intervention research for the treatment of gambling harm here. Catch up on the review itself here.
Posted: 11.03.2025
Read the article in The Conversation by Dr Jamie Torrance and Dr Philip Newall (University of Bristol) on “How to outwit gambling adverts by ‘inoculating’ people against them” based on their latest research in Addiction.
Posted: 11.03.2025
Dr Alice Hoon was featured in a documentary aired on S4C about gambling harm in Wales. It includes a VR simulated horse race and discussion of our 2014 NeuroImage fMRI/MEG findings on the near-miss effect. Watch it back here.
Posted: 11.03.2025
The GREAT Centre has shared insights from the 2024 Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) with a specific focus on trends in past-year gambling in Wales. We compiled these materials for stakeholders, policymakers, and other users and have provided language guidance on how they are best used and reported. The materials, available bilingually in both slide-deck and PDF formats, provide crucial insights into gambling participation rates, gambling behaviours, and specific to Wales. Access the toolkit, in bilingual versions, here.
Posted: 11.03.2025
Several members of the Centre for Military Gambling Research (MilGAM) attended the annual convention of the International Center for Responsible Gaming (ICRG) in Las Vegas, October 2024 and presented their work. Read all about it here.
Posted: 21.02.2025
The SAGE Project results were shared at a knowledge exchange event hosted by MILGAM in Swansea in September 2024. The event featured presentations from the research team, colleagues from Defence Medical Services, and those with lived experience of gambling harm.
Posted: 21.02.2025
Simon was interviewed for this piece in The Big Issue about the Tory general election betting scandal.
Posted: 21.02.2025
It was great to welcome Dr Bryan Singer, Director of the Singer Lab, University of Sussex to Swansea for a talk on pre-clinical modelling of vulnerability to drug and behavioural addictions. Looking forward to many more fruitful collaborations on this important translational topic!
Posted: 21.02.2025
Simon was interviewed by Dr Jon Sutton, Editor of The Psychologist. It was quite a rambling chat, from his introduction to behaviourism to his current work in gambling. Read it here.
Posted: 21.02.2025
Colleagues presenting their work at CAGR 2023, King’s College London.
Posted: 21.02.2025
The GREAT Centre contributed to this important gambling health needs assessment for Wales just published by Public Health Wales.