GambleAware has announced that it is looking to fund a research project to better understand gambling harms in the LGBTQ+ community.
The gambling charity’s research will build upon findings from the publication ‘LGBTQ+ people and gambling harms: a scoping review’- set to be published in the upcoming months – which discovered the need for stronger literature regarding LGBTQ+ experiences of gambling harms.
In addition, GambleAware noted that further research is needed “to explore the lived experience, drivers, and burden of gambling harms within the LGBTQ+ community”.
Granting £297,900 in funds over 18 months, the charity is asking for research to provide new evidence on why the LGBTQ+ community is “disproportionately impacted by gambling harms, and what needs to be done to address their needs or prevent harm – including actionable and practical recommendations for policy, prevention programmes and treatment and support services”.
GambleAware is also looking for applicants who can demonstrate how they will expand their knowledge of the LGBTQ+ communities’ experience of gambling harms, barriers to treatment, and needs from service and healthcare providers, but it isn’t a necessity for an applicant to have specific gambling or gambling harms knowledge.
The charity stated that applicants must have “expertise in conducting research with LGBTQ+ communities, and experience of centring the agency, self-determination, and empowerment of respondents and research participants, including research on issues of social exclusion, stigma and discrimination as barriers faced by marginalised communities accessing services, and the contexts in which LGBTQ+ communities live”.
GambleAware has set a deadline for proposal submission of 5pm on February 12.
Earlier this month, Zoë Osmond, CEO of GambleAware, asked for a “smooth and stable transition” to the proposed statutory levy on the UK gambling industry so that its “transformational potential” for the gambling harms sector can be realised.
However, she also noted that several areas need to be addressed to make sure that the levy and support it provides can be as effective as possible.