Final Report Summary - GAMSOC (Gambling in Europe)
We also conducted the first ever qualitative study of gambling research, asking academics and policy makers in Europe, Asia and Australia why certain topics, including work which focuses on 'problem gambling' for example, are better funded than work which takes a broader public health approach to gambling. People working in gambling studies told us that their field is dominated by academics who are funded by the industry, that access to data is limited to trusted academics who focus on 'safe' topics and that there are no consistently observed procedures for declaring sources of funding in journal articles or at conferences. We wrote up our findings in a report called Fair Game: producing gambling research. You can read the report at:www.gold.ac.uk/gamblingineurope/report/.