CAGR25 Final Programme

Day 1: Monday 16th June 📅

📍 James McClune Smith Building, Level 6

9:00am – 10:20am

Registration and coffee (Level 1)

10:20am

Welcome (Level 6)

10:30am – Keynote

Charles Livingstone – Affective practices of the gambling ecosystem: integrating marketing and consumption in an affective economy.

11:00am – Plenary Presentation Session 1: Global Gambling Perspectives

  • Yatan Pal Singh Balhara – Variations in the gambling regulatory framework across India: Status and implications
  • Junious Mabo Sichali – Mapping the content, modes of exposure, and mechanisms of appeal in gambling marketing in Lilongwe, Malawi
  • Guga Besilia – A study of adolescent knowledge, attitudes, and gambling practices: experiences from Georgia
  • Judith Kas – Effects of new responsible gambling regulations in the Netherlands
  • Daria Ukhova – The Global Gambling Control Monitoring tool

12:30pm – 1:30pm

🍽️ Lunch (Level 1)

1:30pm – Parallel Session 1

Session A: Gambling Advertising & Marketing

  • Ziming Wang – AI-Driven Analysis of Gambling Advertising Exposure in the English Premier League
  • Catho Boone – Behind the game: the association between gambling sponsorship exposure and gambling behaviour in the Belgian general population
  • Lauranna Teunissen – Hidden Bets: An interview and social media data donation study on youth’s exposure to gambling marketing communications
  • Elvira Bolat; Ala Yankouskya; Constantina Panourgia; Megan Kelly – Risky Exposure: Influencer-Driven Gambling Content and Teenagers’ Engagement with Such Content

Session B: Gambling, Gender & Underserved Communities

  • Sylvia Kairouz – Women at play in the age of neoliberalism: the experience of “responsible ambivalence”
  • Sasha Stark – Measuring and Mitigating Gambling-Related Financial Harms Experienced by Whānau and Affected Others in New Zealand
  • Erin McEvoy – Conceptualising Irish women’s journeys in gambling, experiencing gambling harm, and pathways to recovery
  • Philip Newall – “Men should watch football games instead of soap operas”: Masculine role norms are associated with gambling-related harms across the population

2:45pm – Rapid Communications Parallel Session 1

Session A: Rapid Communications

  • Paula Jääskeläinen – Exploring problematic gambling and social work
  • Simon Wright – Electronic screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (e-SBIRT) for gambling harm: Acceptability and preliminary efficacy
  • Andrew Richardson – Understanding drug and alcohol workers’ experiences of gambling-related harms in treatment settings in the North East of England
  • Chloe Francis – Understanding gambling behaviour, awareness, and experience of gambling-related harm among people with intellectual disabilities in Great Britain
  • Blair Biggar – Retirement at Risk: Exploring gambling harm amongst older adults

Session B: Rapid Communications

  • Miguel Peixoto – Executive function in gambling disorder: A meta-analysis on neuropsychological evidence
  • Jim Rogers – Gambling Disorder and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Data from the National Problem Gambling Clinic
  • Michelle Oxtoby – Caution, not inhibitory control, predicts gambling severity
  • Imogen Kruse – Use of risk-taking tasks and personality questionnaires to investigate the relationship between sense of control, loss-chasing behaviour, and individual differences
  • Matt John – The Experience of a Monetary Gamble Attenuates Sensory-Specific Satiety for Sweet Tastes

3:15pm – 3:45pm

☕ Coffee Break (Level 1)

3:45pm – Parallel Session 2

Session A: Preventing Gambling Harms

  • Fiona Dobbie – Preventing gambling‑related harm in adolescents (PRoGRAM‑A): results from a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial
  • Håkan Wall – How Individuals Perceive Gambling Companies’ Preventive Work
  • James Grimes – What does a different approach to gambling harms education look like? The views of people with lived experience, public health academics, and young people
  • Jo Holloway – ‘The Mission’ – To Reduce Gambling-Related Harm
  • Alicia Monreal-Bartolomé – Findings of the GAMBL-OUT Project: An Online Psychoeducational Programme for Preventing Gambling-Related Harm in Young People

Session B: Economics, Monitoring & Surveillance

  • Katherine Simpson – Estimating the Economic Impacts of Reduced Gambling Expenditure
  • Suzanne Geurts – Towards a sustainable national monitoring system for gambling-related harms in the Netherlands: groundwork for international harmonization
  • Steven Murphy – The Individual and Economic Impact of Gambling: An Analysis of Spending Displacement
  • Francisco Nobre – Proximity to gambling shops and gambling harms
  • Veera Kankainen – Navigating Help: First Results of Customer Data from Finnish Third and For-Profit Gambling Harm Services

5:15pm – Rapid Communications Parallel Session 3

Session A: Rapid Communications

  • Braden (Brady) Simpson – BIRG’ing and CORF’ing: Sports Betting’s Impact on Consumer Identity and Engagement with Sport
  • Maria Moxey – Exploring gambling and the grassroots football nexus: A benchmark study in England
  • Francisco J. Sanmartín – The Impact of Loot Box Removal on Player Experience in Brawl Stars
  • Leon Xiao – Illegal advertising of video game loot boxes: Multi-jurisdictional empirical policy research using social media ad repositories

Session B: Rapid Communications

  • Faithful Daniel – Prevalence, correlates, and predictors of sports betting and problem gambling among Nigerian undergraduates
  • Israel Abraham – Online Gambling and Its Prevalence Among Nigerian Medical and Dental Students
  • Tanja Grönroos – Health risk factors and problem gambling severity: a Finnish population-based study
  • Morgan Greene – Gambling behavior and risk among LGBTQ+ identities: A comparative study between the U.S. and U.K.

5:50pm – Close

🎉 Reception Drinks (6:00pm – 7:30pm, University of Glasgow Cloisters)

CAGR25 Day 2 Programme

Day 2: Tuesday 17th June 📅

📍 James McClune Smith Building, Level 6

9:00am – Keynote

Rory O’Connor – Understanding Suicide Risk

9:30am – Plenary Presentations 2: Gambling, Suicide & Harms

  • Elena Petrovskaya and Emily Beck – Initial findings from a psychological autopsy of gambling and suicide
  • Angela Rintoul – Neverending cycles of loss: a qualitative study of gambling-related suicide and attempts from Australia
  • Thelma Oppelt – Addressing the Intersection of Gambling Disorder and Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa: Reframing Gambling as a Public Health Concern
  • Lucía Fernández López and Rosa Ana Santolaria Gómez – Situation analysis and intervention in suicidal ideation and behaviour in the population with gambling disorder in Fejar

11:00am – Coffee Break

☕ (James McClune Smith Building, Level 1)

11:20am – Parallel Presentation Session 3

Session A: Policy, Politics & Industry Tactics

  • Liz Killick;  Michelle Potiaumpai – Spinning the Story: A content analysis of how UK online news media shapes the narrative on gambling
  • Fay Laidler – Transforming pain into purpose: identifying and removing barriers to the policy engagement of women with lived experience of gambling harm
  • Ross Gordon – The Cumulative Impact of Gambling Marketing on Consumption and Harm
  • Martin Jones – The Use (And Abuse) of Lived Experience

Session B: Understanding & Managing Harms

  • Sarah Tipping – The association between increasing levels of gambling harm and emotional health for individuals who are below the threshold of disordered gambling
  • Tony Parente – Developing a Criminal Justice Support Service: Experiences and evidence from GamLEARN
  • Michele Stacey – Considerations for Successful Gambling Treatment Diversion Courts
  • Jess Williams – ACT Vet: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for veterans experiencing gambling harm and comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Hugh Farrell – Usage Markers of Sports-Gambling Related Harm in Australia

12:50pm – 1:50pm

🍽️ Lunch Break (James McClune Smith Building, Level 1)

1:50pm – Keynote

Virve Marionneau – The Corporate Playbook and Shaping the Gambling Evidence Base

2:15pm – Rapid Communications (Parallel Session)

Session A: Rapid Communications

  • Esther Moore – The association between gambling frequency and risk of harm: analysis using English and Scottish Health Survey Data
  • Emmi Kauppila – The impact of a loved one’s gambling problems on affected others: increased risk of gambling problems and the buffering role of relationships (An eight-wave longitudinal study)
  • Tiina Latvala – Gambling and suicidal ideation
  • Katy Penfold – Stigmatisation of people who experience gambling harms: a qualitative exploration across different stakeholder groups
  • Nadia Butler – Intergenerational transmission of gambling-related harm: Findings from a cross-sectional representative population survey

Session B: Rapid Communications

  • Flóra Felso – The impact of deposit limit regulation on channelisation
  • Annie-Claude Savard – The exposure and influence of online gambling advertisement in an unregulated commercial market
  • Maartje Hamer – The development of a training program for vocational education professionals (MBO) to help them recognize and support students who are harmed by gambling
  • Ainhoa Coloma-Carmona – Assessing the Efficacy of Personalized Normative Feedback in Promoting Help-Seeking Among Young Adults Engaged in Gambling and Trading

2:45pm – Coffee Break

☕ (James McClune Smith Building, Level 1)

3:00pm – Parallel Presentation Session 4

Session A: Innovative Methods & Theoretical Perspectives

  • Darragh McGee – Leisure or Livelihoods? A Photovoice Study of Youth Perspectives on Gambling in Ghana and Malawi
  • Eleanor Johnson – All Play, No Payout: A Multimodal Critical Analysis of Gambling Discourses in the Digital Age
  • Alex Russell – A novel retrospective method for capturing longitudinal-like data
  • Adetoun Dapo-Famodu and Matthew Young – Risk of Industry Funding-related Bias in Academic Research: A Mixed-Methods Scoping Review of Influences and Factors
  • Tunde Adibis – Football, Gambling and Youth in Nigeria

Session B: Gambling Patterns & Behaviours

  • Filip Kovařík – Beyond Mere Presence: Daily Gambling Facility Encounters and Their Impact on Gambling Participation
  • Tobias Turowski – Online gambling behavior before the introduction of the Gambling State Treaty in 2021: Cross-sectional analyses of panel data
  • Dan Myles – Cue the sad trombone: UK regulations have not prevented the misuse of celebratory sound effects in online slots
  • Daniel Bennett – The role of impulsivity in decisions to cash out of a risky bet
  • Jeroen Hairwassers; Anke Snoek – Understanding Gambling Behaviours Among Dutch Youth: Quantitative and Qualitative Insights

4:30pm – Summary & Close

🎤 Final remarks and conference wrap-up