CAGR Conference – timetable

09:30 – 10:00: Registration

10:00 – 10:10: Introduction

10:10 – 10:25: Opening address: Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE

10:25 – 11:10: Keynote Address 1: Professor Marcantonio Spada, London South Bank University: The role of metacognitive beliefs in predicting problem gambling: A review.

11:10 – 11:30: Break

11:30 – 12:45: Presentations (4x 15 minutes with no questions, 1 x 15 panel with all speakers to invite questions)

  • Dr. Phil Newall (University of Warwick) – Equivalent gambling warning labels are perceived differently
  • Dr. Alice Hoon – (Swansea University) – The influence of symbolic generalisation on simulated slot machine choice
  • Oliver Scholten – (University of York) – Distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrencies in gambling
  • Prof. Robert Rogers – (Bangor University) – Why don’t (some) gamblers learn the value of losing games? And what can we do about it?

12:45 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 15:15: Presentations (4 x 15 minutes, with no questions, 1 x 15 panel with all speakers to invite questions)

  • Dr. Stephanie Bramley(Kings College London)– Improving understanding of migrant gambling in the UK: Insights from three studies
  • Scott Houghton (Northumbria University) – Content analysis of gambling companies’ twitter posts
  • Dr. Joanne Lloyd (University of Wolverhampton) – Deprivation and Gambling behaviour
  • Dr. Heather Wardle (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) –Spatial Mapping of the risks of gambling harms

15:15 – 16:00: Keynote Address 2: Professor Gerda Reith, University of Glasgow: Gambling related harms: Language, policy and the process of moving towards a public health perspective in Great Britain

16:00 – 16:15 Closing remarks: Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones

Posters from (to be displayed over the lunchbreak, in the lunch room):

  • Elli-Jay McNally, University of Lincoln
  • Elena Vicent-Gomis, University of East London
  • Emily Arden-Close, Bournemouth University
  • David Zendle (University of York)
  • Jose Perales (University of Granada)
  • Gambling Commission