From the recent White Paper, licensing authorities across the UK highlighted the need for further powers to effectively manage gambling premising especially in deprived communities in order to reduce gambling related harms. Therefore, critical analysis is required to develop appropriate policies to adequately manage harms linked to presence of betting shops. As such this project seeks to understand gambling related harm by investigating the relationship between betting shops and crime across different geographies in England. It will focus on different scales and compare different geographies including local authorities, urban and rural divide, seaside localities, hinterlands, old industrial and new towns.

The project lead is Dr Oluwole Adeniyi (Nottingham Business School) at Nottingham Trent University.

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Project News 

Bristol research was represented at the Gambling Commission Conference, on 5th March at the ICC in Birmingham. The theme of the day was “Building the Bigger Picture, Evidence Across Gambling”, and the Hub team were pleased to contribute to the day.

Dr Oluwole Adeniyi presented a poster on his Research Innovation Fund project “Gambling Related Harms: Betting Shops and Crime in UK cities” and won the prize for Best Poster.  Well done Olu!