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