[Commpsych] FW: AIFS Seminar Series: Gambling and harm reduction - 10am AEDT 24 February 2015

Mon Feb 2 11:27:46 WST 2015

This AIFS seminar/webinar might be of interest

Heather Gridley

Honorary Fellow

College of Arts

Victoria University

Melbourne, Australia

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Harm reduction and gambling<http://aifs.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7d4f5060bba06cf69555b0936&id=4fadfdb4b5&e=8a4aa0581c>: Building the evidence for policy development<http://aifs.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7d4f5060bba06cf69555b0936&id=04d2d19acd&e=8a4aa0581c>

Dr Anna Thomas
10am (AEDT) Tuesday 24 February 2015
AIFS Balluk Room, Level 20/ 485 Latrobe Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000

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About the seminar
A key role of government is to balance the duty to protect the community from harm with the need to provide freedom of choice. This seminar will examine harm reduction in gambling and consider the role and capacity of government to provide protection by:

  *   enhancing the self-responsibility of gamblers through strengthening individual capacity for informed choice, and
  *   reducing risk by moderating features of the gambling environment shown to be hazardous.
Evidence to support policy-making is both important and difficult to construct and, in the end, decisions are likely to be made with imperfect evidence. It is important, however, that evidence is built from multiple sources to assess likely effectiveness, costs and consequences.

Dr Thomas will use two examples to discuss this:

  *   reducing access to cash in gambling venues through the removal of automated teller machines (ATMs), and
  *   using pre-commitment technology to encourage informed decision making in gamblers such as setting pre-determined time and/or money limits.

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Dr Anna Thomas <http://aifs.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7d4f5060bba06cf69555b0936&id=9fbd148624&e=8a4aa0581c> is a Senior Research Fellow within the Australian Gambling Research Centre. Dr Thomas has a strong background in both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and this expertise has been exploited in her research which has primarily involved multi-stage, mixed-methods projects.

Dr Thomas' PhD developed and tested a psycho-social model predicting electronic gaming machine (pokie machine) problem gambling. Dr Thomas' research in the addictions area has included: evaluating the removal of ATMs from gambling venues; validating a behavioural checklist to identify problem gamblers in venues; exploring gambling in international students; examining the multi-dimensionality of gambling accessibility; examining self-regulation processes of gambling; and exploring lifetime patterns in gambling.

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