International Gambling Conference 2018
Researcher Stephanie Bramley from the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at the Policy Institute at King’s College London attended the 2018 International Gambling Conference held from 12 February to 14 February. This is the second of three posts Stephanie is filing from the conference. (326 words)
Day two of the International Gambling Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, began with a Pacific welcome from the Dominion Road Tongan Methodist Church Youth Group. The group performed a song whose message was to ‘say no to gambling, yes to family’.
The day’s keynote address was given by Prof. Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths, University of London). Rebecca shared research that she had conducted in London betting shops. She had trained as a cashier and worked in two betting shops for 6 months. During that time she heard about cases of violence, armed robbery and the potential dangers faced by betting shops staff who sometimes work alone. However, such incidents were rarely reported to police, and staff were often not offered any support or counselling.
Rebecca is passionate about anthropology and conducting research where researchers can become immersed in a situation. She also raised the question of why gambling research should be independent from industry and recalled an incident where she felt that the industry ‘owned her research’ and she ‘could not say anything without first checking with the funders’. Rebecca advocated that participants involved in gambling research should be consulted and involved in the design of research studies, saying ‘people are not sources of data to be mined’. She also called for the industry to be required by regulators and licensing authorities to give meaningful access to venues and data.
Following this, the rest of the day focused on concurrent sessions of presentations. I went to six presentations, which covered themes such as the welfare cost of gambling; understanding the migrant journey of Asian students; the impact of gambling for people accessing social and accommodation support; understanding women’s gambling behaviour; the impact of gambling for single mothers and homeless women and the impact of gambling for Pacific people in New Zealand. All presentations had valuable insights which I will consider when Jill Manthorpe, Heather Wardle (LSHTM), Caroline Norrie and I begin our project studying migrant gambling in London and Leeds.
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Stephanie Bramley is a researcher at the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at the Policy Institute at King’s College London. Learn more about her gambling study.
12 September 2018 - Conference day 2
The 2018 Gambling Harm Conference celebrated Aboriginal and First Nations cultures. The 2020 event will continue to explore how gambling harm affects Aboriginal communities. Researcher Stephanie Bramley from the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at the Policy Institute at King’s College London attended the 2018 International Gambling Conference, held from 12 February to 14 February. This is the last of three posts from the conference. This is a list of noteworthy gaming conventions from around the world. This list is sectioned by location, and each gaming convention includes the dates during which it is typically held. Dates listed are approximate or traditional time periods for each convention. IGC2020 Postponed. Registration 12 February, 2018. Powered by Khore by Showthemes. International Gaming Conference October 12, 2018 New York, NY. For more information contact Kim Shepherd at CGInvestorRelationsUK@canaccordgenuity.com.
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08.00 - 09.30 Welcome and official opening
- Graham White, chairman of the European Association for the Study of Gambling, the Netherlands
- Heathcliff Farrugia, CEO Malta Gaming Authority, Malta
- Silvio Schembri, Minister, Malta (Video Message)
09.30 - 11.00 What’s new? What position has the Industry? And the regulator?
Moderator: Graham White, chairman of the European Association for the study of Gambling, the Netherlands
- Graham White, chairman of the European Association for the Study of Gambling, the Netherlands
- Birgitte Sand, IAGR Trustee & Patron, Denmark
11.30 - 12.30 InBrief: What’s new in the research arena? Who has a Vision?
Moderator: Pieter Remmers, Assissa Consultancy Europe, the Netherlands
- Got game? Taking stock of 50 years of research in product-related risk and looking ahead beyond 2020
Jonathan Parke, Sophro Ltd, United Kingdom - Artificial Intelligence and gambling research: Progressing from tracking behaviour today to designing safety into the product in the future
Christian Percy and Simo Dragicevic United Kingdom
13.45 - 15.25 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 - Responsible Gaming Strategy and Politics
- Beyond Reno II: Who cares for vulnerable gamblers?
Gerhard Bühringer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany - Considering co-occurring disorders in gambling disorder: Implications for prevention, treatment and responsible gambling
Marc N. Potenza, Yale University, School of Medicine, USA - Improving strategies in Responsible Gaming Programs: its complete implementation in the Province of Neuquén, Argentina
Julio Ángel Brizuela and Propuesta Cia-Brizuela, APAL Section of Pathological - The recent evolution of the Belgian gambling landscape
Roland Louski, Loterie Nationale, Belgium - Responsible Gambling Strategy Board - overview of research programme
Tim Livesley, Responsible Gambling Strategy Board, United Kingdom
Session 2 - Focus on Research, Gambling and Harm
International Gambling Conference 2018 Schedule
- A new instrument for measuring gambling participation
Rachel Volberg, University of Massachusetts, USA - A comparative analysis of Canadian University policies towards alcohol, drugs and gambling use
Loredana Marchica, McGill University, Canada - “It never rally ends” - A qualitative study of everyday life and living conditions in families of problem gamblers
Trude Klevan, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway and Vibeke Krane, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway and Bente Weimand, Akerhus University Hospital, Norway - The future need for harm minimisation and gambling counselling for the Arabic-speaking community in Sydney, Australia: An exploration of Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) from Australian Census 2016
Keis Ohtsuka, Victoria University, Australia - Advances in Quebec public health & gambling studies: naming harms, measuring impacts, targeting environments
Elisabeth Papineau, Instituté national de santé publique du Québec, Canada
Session 3 - Regulators and Economics
- Ideas from Behavioural Economics for Responsible Gambling
Douglas Walker, College of Charleston, USA - Regulation of cross border gambling
Václav Ulrich and Jan Řehola, Faculty of Law of Charles University, Czech Republic - How should gambling machines be taxed?
Leighton Vaughan Williams, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom - The Licenses of the Gaming Industry in Macao: Overview and Improvement
Changbin Wang, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China Tax incidence of gambling: Evidence from the Finnish gambling market
Tomi Roukka, National Institute for Health and Welfare/University of Turku, Finland
Session 4 - Automated Identification: Self-exclusion and what’s next? The industry involved
- Automated identification of possible problem behaviour in online gambling matching expert assessment
Elisabeth Crone Linding, Danske Spil and Kim Mouridsen, Midway AI, Denmark - Raising Standards in compliance: Can Artificial Intelligence help industry stay one step ahead of criminal spenders in online gambling?
Simo Dragicevic, Playtech, United Kingdom - The long-term effects of a real-time loss-limit reminder at Norsk Tipping
Michael Auer, Neccton, Austria - Responsible gambling in practice: a case study of views and practices of Swedish oriented gambling companies
David Forsström, Department of Public Health Sciences, Sweden - Collaborative Innovation Identifying good practice and inspiring change
Jenny Holland, GambleAware, United Kingdom
Session 5 - (Preventing) Gambling Harm
- From the Slots to the Bottle: A Mixed-Method Study of Addiction Substitution among Recovered Gamblers
Hyoun Kim, University of Calgary, Canada - Gambling-related harm
Alexander Blaszczynski, University of Sydney, Australia - GAME-BLING: When gaming meets gambling
Mina Hazar and Adela Colhon, YMCA of Greater Toronto, Canada 'The law itself doesn't change things'. The local prevention of gambling-related harms after the Act on organizing alcohol, tobacco, drugs and gambling prevention
Jani Selin, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Session 6 - (Socio-)economic costs
- Gambling expenditure in Finland - who contributes the most to the profits of the gambling industry?
Anne Salonen, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland - Social costs of Gambling in Italy
Fabio Lucchini, FeDerSerD (Italian Federation of Workers of the Addiction Departments and Services), Italy - Venezuelan Socio-Economic crisis and its impact on Gambling
César A. Sanchez Bello, Seccion Juego Patologico (APAL), Venezuela - Is slot machine density highest in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in Finland?
Susanna Raisamo, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland Two Disasters and the Future of Las Vegas Gaming: Shootings at the Mandalay and the Fall of Steve Wynn
William Thompson, University Nevada, USA
15.55 - 17.15 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 -State of the Art in the Practices of Responsible Gaming
- Experiences from proactive responsible gambling communication
Judith Torstensson, Svenska Spel, Sweden - Effects of wagering advertisements and inducements on betting behaviour
Nerilee Hing, CQUniversity, Australia - Bring Responsible Gaming to Retail
Jesse Saccoccio, IGT, Italy - The Relationship between Exclusions from Gambling Arcades and Accessibility: Evidence from a newly introduced exclusion program in Hesse, Germany
Tanja Strohäker, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Session 2 - The Netherlands Gaming Authority
Seminar: The Tulips are Growing
Session 3 - Focus on Women
- Never too old, never old enough… Gambling-related problems among older adults: risk factors and experimental treatment with focus on Women
Fulvia Prever, SUN(N)COOP & ALEA, Italy - Identifying help-seeking behaviours among women gamblers: a cross-sectional population survey from Quebec, Canada
Adѐle Morvannou, Concordia University, Canada - Exploring experiences of violence amongst women with gambling disorder
Fulvia Prever, SUN(N)COOP & ALEA, Italy - Mixed model of care and gender differences
Adele Duncan, Gordon Moody Association, United Kingdom
Session 4 - Treatment of Problem Gaming
- Developing an on online treatment program for problem gambling
Nigel Turner, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada - The impact of therapeutic contract and CBT treatment in gambling disorder: A pilot study
Pedro Hubert, IAJ - Instituto Apoio Jagador, Portugal - Problem gambling, craving and hypnosis
Stephanie Lienard, Private practise / Addiction Treatment Center, France - Pharmacological Treatment of Pathological Gambling with Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal)
Viorel Lupu, Luliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj Napoca, Romania - ORTHOS intensive residential treatment for pathological gamblers: Outcomes after 10 years of the experimental project
Riccardo Zerbetto, Orthos, Italy
Session 5 - Gambling Regulations
- The Italian Gaming Machines and Gambling Regulated Market 15 years later: keynotes for further market implementation towards the players safety
Emmanuele Cangianelli, MAG, Italy - New Malta Gaming Regulatory Framework
Olga Finkel, WH Partners, Malta - Casino Anti-money laundering Rules and Procedures in Macao
Carlos Siu Lam, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China - Illegal online sports betting machines in the Netherlands
Toine Spapens, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
International Gambling Conference 2018 Calendar
Session 6 - What’s in games and Solutions?
International Gambling Conference 2018 2019
- Merging game design features and player behaviour risk markers: What can we learn?
Christian Percy, Playtech, United Kingdom - Daily Fantasy Sports, Social Casino Games, and Ethnic Differences in Gambling Behaviours: Results from a State-wide Prevalence Study
Lia Nower and Devin Mills, Rutgers University, USA - In-play sports betting a scoping study
Elizabeth A. Killick, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom The game of Kinzo: gamblers reported perceptions, paths and behaviours
Serge Sevigny, Université Laval, Canada