CGR Open House
We’re hosting an open house event this Friday, 11 December, 3 – 4pm, for students who are interested in undergraduate research openings (including COGS 402 projects, but also Directed Studies or voluntary placements). This is an informal event and an opportunity to see the lab, meet the team, tell us about your interests. In person […]
Welcome new undergrads to the lab!
Big welcome to our incoming undergraduate RAs this year: Maya Thulin is joining as a 3rd year Psychology Honours student, interested in the concept of the ‘professional gambler’. Ayush Kathuria is joining our Twitch team, focussing on gambling mechanics in the chat on Twitch. Samantha Ma is joining the eye tracking and immersion project to […]
CGR Open House
We’re hosting an open house event this Friday, 27 August, 3 – 4pm, for students who are interested in undergraduate research openings (including COGS 402 projects, but also Directed Studies or voluntary placements). This is an informal event and an opportunity to see the lab, meet the team, tell us about your interests. In person […]
Ke Zhang awarded the UBC Graduate Fellowship in Gambling Research!
Congrats to Ke for being the first CGR trainee to be awarded the UBC Graduate Fellowship in Gambling Research. This is a fellowship supported by the British Columbia Lottery Corporation and adjudicated by the UBC Faculty of Arts.
Spencer awarded the NCPG Dissertation Award!
Big congrats to CGR graduate & alum Dr Spencer Murch (now a postdoc at Concordia University) who has received the Dr Durand Jacobs Dissertation Award from the National Council on Problem Gambling (USA) for his PhD thesis ‘Behavioural and physiological correlates of immersion in gambling using electronic gaming machines’.
Welcome to our new RAs!
A warm welcome to our new Research Assistants joining the lab this term. Eliscia Sinclair has been awarded a Department of Psychiatry Quinn summer studentship, to conduct a project on breaking even in gambling behaviour. And Dimitrios Avramidis has joined the lab for a Directed Studies project looking at gambling streams on Youtube and Twitch.
New Statesman article on online gambling data & tracking
Luke is interviewed in this piece in the New Statesman on how gambling websites can use behavioural tracking for harm reduction but also for marketing purposes. Some discussion of our recent paper in IGS by Stephanie Finkenwirth et al.
University of Sydney, Technology, Risk-taking and Gambling (TRG) webinar
Luke is one of the webinar discussants in Season 2 of the (highly recommended) University of Sydney TRG webinars organized by Kahlil Philander and Sally Gainsbury. This episode on ‘Cashless payments in gambling venues: what do we know and what do we need to know?’ also features Sally, Tom Swanton and Kasra Ghaharian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pul8p6L6s8
New Horizons in Responsible Gambling conference
Many thanks to the New Horizons conference team at BCLC for inviting the Centre to curate a session at the virtual conference this year. In the absence of a conventional poster session, we have moved to a data-blitz / lightning talk format featuring 6 short presentations by Gabriel Brooks, Osa Hawthorne, Fiza Arshad, Mario Ferrari, […]
PODCAST: Spencer on Jeff Does Vegas
The recently-graduated Dr Spencer Murch is interviewed about his PhD research on slot machine immersion for this detailed discussion on the Jeff Does Vegas podcast. ‘Total immersion: the psychology of slot machines’, episode 84, also available on Spotify & AppStore.