Research Innovation Fund

The Research Innovation Fund supports innovative and interdisciplinary research to understand and tackle gambling harms.

The aim of the Research Innovation Fund is to develop and support an international network of researchers across the world, therefore any researcher based at an Higher Education Institution (HEI)/university anywhere in the world can apply for the Research Innovation Fund.

Grants can only be awarded to academic staff and PhD students, with their supervisor’s permission, based at HEIs, however we welcome non-academic partners as co-investigators (Co-Is).

There will be two Research Innovation Funds calls per year:

The strategic awards will run for up to 12 months from August-July each year. Awards are expected to be for up to £50K. We expect to fund up to 8 of these strategic awards per year.
The seedcorn awards will run for up to 6 months from January-July each year. Awards are expected to be for up to £10K. We expect to fund up to 8 of these seedcorn awards per year.

How to apply for Research Innovation Fund seedcorn awards

How to apply for Research Innovation Fund strategic awards

Research Innovation Fund Terms & Conditions

Research Innovation Fund YR3 Strategic Award T&Cs (PDF, 292kB)

Contact the Hub's Research Development Associate

We encourage you to contact the Hub's Research Development Associate to discuss your research proposals: Dr Emily Crick

Project name	Project leads	Institution	hidden keywords
Engaging Scotland’s community voice to understand the next steps needed around gambling related harm	Dr Tom Bason	Coventry University	inequality; socio-technical innovation
Delving into youth perspectives on in-game gambling-like elements	Dr Thomas Krause	University of Hohenheim, Germany	decision-making; narratives
The role of performing arts in educating the youth against harmful gambling in Uganda	Dr Branco Sekalegga	Makerere University, Uganda	narratives
Stump the odds: developing an international network for collaborative research into gambling harms in professional cricket	Dr Carolyn Plateau	Loughborough University	decision-making; narratives
Identification of and intervention in gambling effects among vulnerable groups in public universities in Kenya	Gregory Jumah Nyongesa	Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST), Kenya	decision-making; narratives; inequality; socio-technical innovation
Scoping, consensus building and raising awareness of gambling-related harms among rugby players in Wales	Cerys Head	Swansea University	decision-making; narratives; inequality; socio-technical innovation
Starting conversations about harmful gambling with ethnic minority women	Dr Emily Arden-Close	Bournemouth University	narratives; inequality
Exploring the diffusion of gambling information impact on consumer’s behaviours, and to design a mitigating model to address harmful gambling in Namibia	Dr Selma Iilonga	University of Namibia	narratives; socio-technical innovation
Gambling related harm: an urban perspective of betting shop and crime	Dr Oluwole Adeniyi	Nottingham Trent University	inequality
Live-Gam: Exploring the impact of viewing gambling on livestream platforms on the attitudes, behaviours, and engagement in young adults and adolescents towards gambling	Dr Glen Dighton	Swansea University	narratives; socio-technical innovation
Understanding the relationship between stigma and gambling-related harm	Prof Zsolt Demetrovics, Dr Andrea Czakó and Yanisha Soborun	University of Gibraltar	inequality; narratives;
Examining gambling harms within LGBTQ+ communities in the UK	Dr Reece Bush-Evans	Bournemouth University	inequality; narratives
Gambling harms among those under probation supervision in England and Wales	Dr Julie Trebilcock	Brunel University	decision-making; inequality; narratives; socio-technical innovation
Online help-seeking searches and gambling harm	Dr Sebastian Whiteford	Swansea University	socio-technical innovation
Enforcing 'responsible gambling' regulations: the (irresponsible?) impact on employees of betting and gambling outlets	Dr Jo Large and Dr Sam Kirwan	University of Bristol	narratives; inequality
Investigating neural signals during risky decision making	Dr Paul Dodson	University of Bristol	decision-making
The spatial signatures of gambling behaviours: access to online vs. brick-and-mortar facilities	Prof Emmanouil Tranos	University of Bristol	inequality; socio-technical innovation
A pilot study to assess the possibility of generating a quantitative analysis of the time evolution of gambling-related practices within cryptocurrency trading platforms	Dr Sam Kirwan and Prof Luca Giuggioli	University of Bristol	socio-technical innovation
Mapping the data landscape in gambling harms research	Prof Sharon Collard, Prof Emmanouil Tranos and Jamie Evans	University of Bristol	inequality