Video Games and Gambling-Related Harms
Supports United Kingdom studies on video games and gambling through multidisciplinary innovation on safer engagement.
The Video Games and Gambling-Related Harms call is a cross-council programme coordinated by MRC, AHRC, EPSRC, ESRC, and UKRI, funded from the same statutory gambling levy that underpins the broader ESRC gambling harms programme. The total fund is £5,000,000, with a maximum award of £1,000,000 per project at 80% full economic cost — no additional matched funding is required beyond the standard 20% …
Interdisciplinary research on relationships between gambling and video games, including regulated gambling adjacent to gaming and unregulated gambling-like activities (loot boxes, social casino gaming).
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