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Gambling and Sports in a Global Age

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Research in the Sociology of Sport

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Research in the Sociology of Sport Volume 18

Gambling and Sports in a Global Age

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Darragh McGee

University of Bath, UK

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Christopher Bunn

University of Glasgow, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Contributors

Tunde Adebisi is a second-year PhD researcher at Ulster University. He is interested in Youth Culture and the key pathways, innovations, or strategies young people in Africa are developing or adopting to mitigate many challenges besieging their society. Probing the self-help activities of African youths may reveal important dynamics of youth culture in Africa.

Dr Kwaku Oppong Asante is an Associate Professor of Health Psychology and an experienced researcher in the University of Ghana and Research Associate in the Department of Psychology, University of the Free State, South Africa. His research interests focus on adolescent and young adults' mental health, adolescents in adversity and health promotion.

Dr Blair Biggar works across disciplines to explore inequalities with a focus on migration and gambling research. Blair has experience combining leadership roles in research, teaching and the third sector. He currently leads the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling's Lived Experience workstream and manages the Football Fans and Betting (FFAB) project.

Dr Harry Bowles is a Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK. Harry has an established research profile in the sociology and of sport and physical education with specific research interests in the career transitional experiences of youth athletes, sport and the digital economy and commodification of young people's identities in the digital age.

Dr Christopher Bunn is a Senior Lecturer in sociology at the University of Glasgow and a senior social scientist at the Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit. His research examines the intersection of sports and gambling in the UK, Malawi and globally. Chris is a commissioner on the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling and a co-convenor for Gambling Realities Africa.

Dr Bram Constandt is an Assistant Professor in sports management at Ghent University, Belgium. His research focuses on responsible management and integrity issues in sports. He was awarded the 2020 ESMQ New Researcher Award by the European Association for Sport Management for his work on the normalisation of gambling in sports.

Dr Declan Hill is an Associate Professor of investigations at the University of New Haven. He specialises in the study of organised crime and corruption in international sport. His first book ‘The Fix: Organised crime and soccer’ tells the story of Hill infiltrating a group of Asian match-fixers as they fixed matches at the World Cup.

Mike Huggins, University of Cumbria, is an Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cumbria. He has published over a 100 refereed articles, book chapters and books on the history of sport and leisure, with a special interest in the role gambling has played in past horse racing, soccer and greyhound racing. He is a former President of the European Committee for Sports History, and he has received awards for his scientific studies from the British Society for Sports History and the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport. His two most recent edited books are A Cultural History of Sport in the Industrial Age (Bloomsbury 2021) and (with Rob Hess) Match Fixing and Sport: Historical Perspectives (Routledge 2020).

Dr Robin Ireland is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is also an Honorary Director of Research with the European Healthy Stadia Network. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Glasgow in 2021 with a thesis on the Commercial Determinants of Health in Sport. His book Sport, Sponsorship and Public Health was published in 2023.

Dr Viktorija Kesaite is a Research Associate at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on theoretical frameworks in gambling and testing these frameworks using secondary datasets. She completed her PhD in Health Economics at the University of Exeter.

Dr Virve Marionneau is a university researcher at the University of Helsinki Centre for Research on Addictions, Control, and Governance (CEACG). Her research focuses on gambling harms and the political economy of gambling.

Dr Simone McCarthy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University working in the area of commercial determinants of health. She has received funding for gambling research from Deakin University, VicHealth, and the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation.

Dr Darragh McGee is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK. His research examines the sociocultural, technological and ethical issues surrounding gambling and young people, including the public health impacts of gambling in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has received funding from the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and the Global Challenges Research Fund.

Dr Janne Nikkinen has dozens of academic publications about gambling, including several jointly authored and edited books (e.g. “Global gambling industry”, Springer 2022). His research interest related to gambling spans a range of issues, from regulatory and policy affairs to the prevention of gambling harm.

Dr Hannah Pitt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University, Australia. She has received funding for gambling research from the Australian Research Council, Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, the NSW Office of Responsible Gambling, VicHealth and Deakin University.

Dr Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie is a Community and Applied Health Psychologist by training and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana. His research foci include the application of multi-ecological models to understanding and improving child and adolescent mental health, and self-harm and suicide prevention in resource-poor contexts.

Professor Gerda Reith is a Professor of Social Science at the University of Glasgow. She is a Commissioner on the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling, Co-Director of Gambling Research Glasgow at the University of Glasgow, and Co-Convenor of Gambling Realities Africa. Gerda’s research focuses on the broad sociological and political-economic drivers of gambling. She has received funding from the National Institute for Health Research, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council and the British Academy to explore these themes. Her most recent book, Addictive Consumption: Capitalism, Modernity and Excess, analyses the origins and development of the commercial drivers of harmful consumption across a range of industries, including gambling.

Professor Samantha Thomas is a Professor of Public Health at Deakin University, Australia. She has received funding for gambling research from the Australian Research Council, Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, NSW Office of Responsible Gambling and Healthway WA. She is a member of the board of the International Confederation of Alcohol and Other Drug Research Associations and the Gambling Harm Prevention Advisory Board for Lotterywest.

Dr Daria Ukhova is a feminist social scientist with expertise in equitable health and social policy development. She currently leads policy analysis for Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling. Daria was a co-author of the WHO's 2016 report Women's health and well-being in Europe: beyond the mortality advantage.

Professor Heather Wardle is a Professor of gambling research and policy and policy at the University of Glasgow. She co-directs Gambling Research Glasgow, a collective of gambling researchers based at the University of Glasgow (www.grg.scot). She is Co-chair of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling and former Deputy Chair of the British Advisory Board on Safer Gambling. Her book ‘Games without Frontiers? Socio-historical perspectives at the gaming/gambling intersection’ was published in 2021.

Dr Joana Salifu Yendork is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana. Her research interests centre on child and adolescent mental health with a particular focus on vulnerable populations such as orphans, adolescents in stepfamilies, sexually abused adolescents, adolescent girls in child marriage and youth in gambling.

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