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- Save the date for our energetic and inspiring public lecture “Tackling the World-Wide Gambling Epidemic. What Can We Learn from Africa?” 2 July 2025 This will be a free, in-person public lecture being held in the Wills Memorial Building at the University of Bristol, on Wednesday 16th October 2025 from 18.00 to 19.30. Open to Everyone in the City and Far Beyond.
- Professor Agnes Nairn and Dr Kah-Wee Lee awarded University of Bristol Benjamin Meaker Annual Award. 9 June 2025 Professor Agnes Nairn and Dr Kah-Wee Lee, world expert on global casino projects from National University of Singapore’s Department of Architecture, have been awarded a prestigious University of Bristol’s Benjamin Meaker Annual Award (BMAA) from 1st August 2025 to 31st July 2026.
- Hub Co-Director Professor Agnes Nairn New Appointment to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) College of Experts. 9 June 2025 Professor Agnes Nairn is delighted to have been recruited to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) College of Experts.
- Expressions of Interest - Changing the Odds: Exploring Gambling and Gambling Harms Through Arts & Humanities 26 March 2025 The University of Bristol will host a one-day symposium on 10th September 2025 focussing on Arts and Humanities research into gambling and gambling harms.
- Save the date for Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research Third International Interdisciplinary Colloquium 11 March 2025 This will be a free, in-person event being held at We the Curious, Bristol, UK (with a Livestream option for those unable to attend in person) on Thursday 16th October 2025.
- Professor Pamela Raburu from Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) visits the Hub 12 December 2024 Professor Pamela Raburu, a Co-I on the Research Innovation Fund project Identification of and intervention in gambling effects among vulnerable groups in public universities in Kenya made a visit to the Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research.
- Great Britain lags behind Europe on restricting gambling marketing, new research shows 13 November 2024 A new study, by the University of Bristol and Ipsos, adds to mounting evidence showing gambling marketing needs much stricter national regulation.
- Investigation exposing huge surge of gambling marketing at start of Premier League season prompts urgent call to kick ‘out of control’ industry into touch 16 October 2024 New research reveals gambling messages during the opening weekend of this season’s football Premier League have almost trebled since last year, putting fans including children at risk.
- Hub researchers analyse gambling advertising via social media in the US 4 September 2024 Sports fans are being bombarded daily with gambling advertising via social media in the United States – and the majority of ads could be in breach of regulations, according to a new study. The findings, exposing non-compliance to the industry’s codes, have prompted calls for strict legislation to better curb and police online gambling advertising, which has surged in recent years.
- Research Innovation Fund Seedcorn Award 2024/25 call now open 8 August 2024 You can now apply for our Research Innovation Fund Seedcorn Award competition which aims to support innovative and interdisciplinary research to understand and tackle gambling harms.