Research interests
- Gamesense
- Problem Gambling
- Responsible Gambling
- Financial Performance
- RG Performance Measurement
- Corporate Social Responsibility
The Political Economy of Gambling and Responsible Gambling in British Columbia.
Project Title: Corporate Responsibility as Legitimation in British Columbia’s Gambling Industry
- How the Province of British Columbia, and particularly, its main gaming company BCLC implements its RG (Responsible Gambling) initiatives.
- Main goal is to identify and position the key stakeholders in B.C.’s responsible gambling narrative.
- Also looks at how RG constitutes/is constituted by BC’s gambling revenue distribution, discourses on problem gambling, and the technologies and processes connected to RG programs.
- How this information connects to the historic legitimation of gambling, creates a comprehensive picture of responsible gambling in BC, and sheds light on how gambling as an industry and as an activity is legitimated in Canadian society across time.
- Ongoing: Financial and Performance measures of gaming revenue distribution and RG as reported by GPEB; Summary of Problem Gambling studies in BC
- Ongoing: The contradictions of the government as a benefactor of the gambling industry and its “duty of care” towards its citizens
- Ongoing: Self-exclusion: technology and processes