October 5-6, 2022

Futures of Gambling Studies: An International Conference for Early Career Scholars

**REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN**

The Research and Networking for Gambling Early-Career Scholars (RANGES) is proud to present its second international conference titled Futures of Gambling Studies: An International Conference for Early Career Scholars, taking place virtually from October 5th-6th. The conference aims to foster the interaction, capacity, and growth of early career scholars in gambling studies through networking and collaboration opportunities with junior and senior scholars, professional development workshops, and opportunities for presenting work.


Abstract submissions for the Oral Presentations and Virtual Poster Sessions are now closed. Presentations will be held during the Early Career Showcase on October 5, 2022.

October 5, 2022 - Early Career Research Showcase

The second iteration of our Early Career Research Showcase will take place on Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 from 9:00 AM to 4:30PM (UTC-4; e.g., Montreal).

This virtual event, open to the public, features national and international speakers, aims to highlight novel research undertaken by up-and-coming researchers in the gambling field.

  • Megan Bailey

    Megan Bailey

    Australian National University’s Centre for Gambling Research

    Megan Bailey holds a PhD in Public Health. Megan is a postdoctoral research fellow currently working at the Australian National University’s Centre for Gambling Research. She has a range of applied qualitative and mixed methods research skills, and experience in program evaluation and implementation science, particularly in the areas of behavioural addiction, health promotion and Indigenous health and wellbeing research.

  • Paula Jääskeläinen

    Paula Jääskeläinen

    University of Helsinki Research Centre for Addiction, Control, and Governance (CEACG)

    Paula Jääskeläinen is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Helsinki Research Centre for Addiction, Control, and Governance (CEACG). Her dissertation focuses on the socio-cultural normalization of gambling using a case example of the recently opened urban casino in the city of Tampere (Finland), and online gambling marketing. In her work, she combines perspectives from gambling studies and urban sociology. She has wide-ranging experience of conducting focus group interviews and online interviews in several studies concerning urban segregation, recreational gambling and gambling related social problems. Currently, she is working in a Nordic research project on gambling companies’ social media use.

  • Marc Lajeunesse

    Marc Lajeunesse

    Concordia University

    Marc Lajeunesse is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University. His Research focuses on toxicity in online games. He is driven to understand toxic and transgressive phenomena in order to help create more positive conditions within games with the ultimate hope that we can produce more equitable and joyful play experiences for more people. He has published on the Steam marketplace and DOTA 2, and is a co-author of the upcoming Microstreaming on Twitch (under contract with MIT Press).

  • Hannah Pitt

    Hannah Pitt

    Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University

    Hannah Pitt is a VicHealth Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University. She is a qualitative public health researcher who completed her PhD in 2018, which explored the impact and influence of sports betting advertising on young people’s gambling attitudes and consumption intentions. Her research has focused on exploring the normalisation of gambling in at-risk groups, such as young people, older adults, women, and young men, and understanding the influence of industry tactics on attitudes and behaviours relating to harmful industries. She is also interested in exploring how young people can be better engaged in public health advocacy initiatives that address the harms caused by harmful industries

  • Steve Sharman

    Steve Sharman

    King's College London

    Steve Sharman is a Research Fellow at King's College London and the first behavioural addictions focused Research Fellow within the National Addiction Centre. He has held previous post-doctoral positions at the University of East London, and the University of Lincoln. Steve completed his PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, and his MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. He is a current recipient of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, and has previously been awarded the King’s Prize Fellowship, and the Society for the Study of Addiction’s Griffith Edwards Academic Fellowship. His research interests include gambling behavior, gambling in virtual reality, and problem gambling in specific vulnerable populations. Steve is a member of The National UK Research Network for Behavioural Addictions (NUK-BA) and is part of the organising committee for the Current Advances in Gambling Research Conference. He also supervises final year undergraduate and post-graduate dissertations and teaches undergraduate and post-graduate psychology.

  • Andrei Zanescu

    Andrei Zanescu

    Concordia University

    Andrei Zanescu is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. His doctoral research project focuses on simulation in blockbuster games and cultural stereotyping. Andrei has published platform studies work in New Media and Society and The Journal of Consumer Culture on the hybridization of game platforms and gambling mechanisms as part of the Responsible Gaming project run by Dr. Martin French. He is also a co-author on the forthcoming Microstreaming on Twitch (under contract with MIT Press).

October 6, 2022 - Early Career Research Moderated Discussions

Day 2 of the conference will entail a series of Early Career Research Moderated Discussions aims to address current evolving issues within the gambling field and the specific needs of early career scholars. This virtual event, exclusively for early career gambling scholars,* will take place on Thursday, October 6th 2022 from 9:00AM to 4:00PM (UTC-4; e.g., Montreal).

Day 2 will also include the first session of an optional two-part Grant Writing Workshop.

*Note - Early Career Research Moderated Discussions are only available for early career scholars (i.e., individuals who have received their PhD within the past ten years).

  • Vincent Wagner

    Vincent Wagner

    Institut universitaire sur les dépendances

    Vincent Wagner has a PhD in Clinical Psychology (University of Nantes, France). Currently, he is an early career researcher at the Institut universitaire sur les dépendances and an adjunct professor in the Addiction Studies and Research Program, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke (Canada). His research works focus on, using mostly qualitative and collaborative designs, trajectories of psychoactive substance use, addictive behaviors, services utilization, change processes and time perspectives, especially among vulnerable populations (e.g., people living in precariousness, seniors, etc.).

  • Kate Bedford

    Kate Bedford

    University of Birmingham

    Kate Bedford is a Professor of Law and Political Economy at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her research focuses mostly on two areas: i. gender, law, and international development, and ii. the political economy of gambling law and regulation. In 2008, she began using commercial and non-commercial bingo to think in new ways about the regulation of everyday speculation. Her second book, Bingo Capitalism: The Law and Political Economy of Everyday Gambling, was published in 2019. She currently co-edits the Critical Gambling Studies journal. More information about her work is available here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/bedford-kate.aspx

  • Fiona Nicoll

    Fiona Nicoll

    University of Alberta

    Dr Fiona Nicoll is a Professor in Political Science at the University of Alberta. A transnational scholar and founding editor and current co-editor of Critical Gambling Studies, an international, interdisciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal and blog, Dr Nicoll works together with scholars around the world to shift academic discourses beyond a narrow focus on ‘problem gambling’.  Recent examples include a recent special issue on Critical Indigenous Gambling Studies and a book chapter exploring  gambling, affect and aesthetics in the award-winning television drama, Ozark.

  • Patrizia Villotti

    Patrizia Villotti

    Université de Québec à Montréal

    Patrizia Villotti an Assistant Professor with the Department of Education & Pedagogy (career section) at UQAM. She obtained a PhD in Psychological Sciences and Education at the Univesity of Trento in Italy, and held several post-doctoral positions in work psychology and mental health at work in different countries (Italy, Belgium, Australia, Canada). She does research in organizational psychology, work disability prevention and management, and clinical psychology. Among others, she teaches and does research on the topic of burnout

  • Martin French

    Martin French

    Concordia University

    Martin French an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University. He has studied gambling and quasi-gambling games, particularly as they have been transformed by processes related to digitalization, as part of his broader research program on risk governmentalities.

  • Annie-Claude Savard

    Annie-Claude Savard

    Université Laval

    Annie-Claude Savard (ACS) is an associate professor in the School of Social Work and Criminology at Laval University. Her current research examines the social representations of individual and collective responsibility in the gambling field, discourses analysis in gambling advertising and prevention messages, gambling among young adults and the medicalization of issues related to gambling.

  • Jennifer Reynolds

    Jennifer Reynolds

    Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)

    Jennifer Reynolds (JR) is a knowledge broker for the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) and one of the founding members of RANGES. Trained in public health, JR is an applied researcher with 15+ years experience on the topic of youth gambling prevention and integrated knowledge mobilization, using traditional and arts-based participatory research methods to dissolve barriers and bridge the gap between research and practice.Previously, JR was the lead on developing best practices for youth gambling harm prevention, has produced two documentaries as gambling prevention/education resources, and was an FRQ-SC funded Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University.

  • Adèle Morvannou

    Adèle Morvannou

    Université de Sherbrooke

    Adèle Morvannou is a trained psychologist and is currently a professor in the Community Health Sciences program at the Université de Sherbrooke. She is a frequent researcher at the Institut universitaire sur les dépendances and with the HERMES multidisciplinary research team and an associate researcher at the Charles-Le Moyne Research Center. She is interested in the accessibility of services for women who experience gambling-related harms, poker and video game players and gambling trajectories.

  • Eva Monson

    Eva Monson

    Université de Sherbrooke

    Eva Monson is an early career professor at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and one of the founding members of the RANGES community. Her current research is devoted to investigating how social and environmental deprivation, from the level of the individual to the neighbourhoods where they reside, factor into the dialogue concerning responsible gambling practices.

Sponsors

  • Research And Networking for Gambling Early-career Scholars (RANGES)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Centre de recherche Charles-LeMoyne
  • Université de Laval
  • Jeu responsabilités & société

Location

Online event

Registration period

May 12, 2022 - 14:00 until October 6, 2022 - 17:00

Submission period

May 12, 2022 - 14:00 until September 9, 2022 - 23:30

Contact us

If you have any questions, please contact rangesnetwork@gmail.com .

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