Advisory Group

The project is guided by an all-voluntary, unpaid advisory board, chaired by Professor Gerda Reith, an academic with a long record of gambling research. This board is made up of academics, bingo industry representatives, and gambling regulators.

Advisor	Affiliation	Short biography
Prof. Gerda Reith	University of Glasgow, School of Social and Political Sciences	Gambling policy expert and former Chair of the Research Panel at the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board.
Prof. Colin S. Campbell	Douglas College, Department of Criminology	Gambling law and policy expert and consultant for Alberta Gaming Research Commission; author of a study of charity gambling in British Columbia.
Dr. Emma Casey	Northumbria University	Sociologist specialising in women’s gambling cultures. Emma Casey is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University. Books include Women, Pleasure and the Gambling Experience (Ashgate, 2008) which was shortlisted for the BSA Philips Abrams Memorial Prize and Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life (edited with Lydia Martens, Ashgate, 2007). Emma is currently working with Mass Observation Archive on an ESRC funded project on the theme of gambling and households (RES-000-22-4314).
Prof. Rebecca Cassidy	Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Anthropology	Gambling anthropologist, PI for GAMSOC, an ERC-funded project on gambling in Europe, and coordinator of Goldsmith’s network on gambling.
Prof. Amy Chazkel	Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Centrel	Historian of gambling criminalization in Brazil. Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of a socio-legal study on the criminalization of the ‘animal lottery’: Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2011). Chazkel is winner of the New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Prize, co-winner of the J. Willard Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association, and recipient of Honorable Mention for the Best Book Prize of the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association. Other publications include articles on penal institutions, illicit gambling, forced labor in post-colonial Brazil and co-edited issues of the Radical History Review that explore the privatization of common property in global perspective and Haitian history. She has held faculty fellowships and visiting scholar positions at the universities of Yale, Harvard, and Columbia, among otheres such as the Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais/ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the Universidade Federal da Santa Catarina. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Radical History Review Editorial Collective.
Dr. Carolyn Downs	Lancaster University, Management School	Expert in historical and cultural analysis of bingo, and former coordinator of the Leisure, Recreation and Heritage Research Group at the University of Salford. Carolyn has pioneered research into virtual gambling and content generated risks to young people from online social networking and also led the first UK study into gambling-related debt and a pilot study into the relationship between leisure and under-age alcohol use. Her academic work on the Social, Economic and Cultural History of Bingo (1906-2005) acted as a springboard for her current research into various social aspects of gambling. That research was featured in the BBC documentary ‘Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo’ broadcast in 2012. Dr. Downs is also Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, MMU Research Institute for Health and Social Change.
Dr. Sytze Kingma	University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences	European gambling policy analyst, and author of key text on global gambling liberalization trends.
Prof. Roy Light	St John's Chambers	Leading licensing barrister and academic analyst of gambling law.
Dr. Alan Littler	Kalff Katz & Franssen Attorneys at Law	Author of several key articles on European gambling regulation, including on remote gambling, and now practicing at a gambling law firm in Amsterdam. Dr. Littler is also an ‘Extramural Fellow’ of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) where he did his PhD.
Prof. Debra Morris	University of Liverpool, Liverpool Law School	Specialises in charity law, property, employment law Debra’s research has focused on many different aspects of charity law and regulation, ranging from the ‘public benefit’ test through to the regulation of fundraising. Debra’s work on charity mergers and acquisitions and the resolution of disputes in the charitable sector was carried out in close consultation with the charitable sector and this approach helps to ensure that the recommendations are pertinent and useful to charities. Debra has also published on the legal position of private schools and not-for-profit hospitals. Debra is currently examining the impact of the Equality Act 2010 on charities. Debra teaches Equity and Trusts, Land Law, Employment Law.
Dr. Jane Rigbye	Responsible Gambling Trust	Jane is the Director of Commissioning at the Responsible Gambling Trust, and is responsible for the Trust's harm prevention and treatment programmes. Her doctoral dissertation in the psychology of gambling is titled: 'Barriers to Treatment Access among Young Problem Gamblers' (Nottingham Trent University). Prior to her current appointment, Jane was Head of Youth Services and Policy Development at GamCare. She has lectured on gambling studies at the University of Salford (Salford Business School) and at Nottingham Trent University (Division of Psychology), and has published a range of academic and consultancy papers on gambling and problem gambling.
Jonathan Watkin	The Gambling Commission	Gambling industry specialist and Senior Policy Development Officer with the Gambling Commission.
Miles Baron Representative from the UK Bingo Association	The Bingo Association	Miles Baron holds an M.B.A., Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Leeds. Mr. Baron joined the bingo industry in 1983. He worked for Mecca Bingo in a variety of positions such as Operations Director and Sales and Marketing Director during his last six years at that company. His expertise and leadership in the sector are witnessed by his appointment in October 2012 as the current Chief Executive of the Bingo Association and, at the same time, Chief Executive of the National Bingo Game.
Cherry Hosking Representative from the UK Bingo Association	The Bingo Association	With prior expertise as Company Secretary in commercial property and the professional services industry, Cherry joined the Bingo Association where she is Company Secretary to the Executive Council of that Trade Association for licenced bingo operators in Great Britain since 2007. Cherry is also Company Secretary for The National Bingo Game Association Limited (NBGA), which holds a full remote bingo operating licence from the Gambling Commission. The NBGA has operated games of combined bingo, linking hundreds of clubs to play joint games since 1986.
David Lucas	Fraser Brown Solicitors	David has over 30 years experience in licensing law. He specialises in all aspects of gambling, alcohol and entertainment licensing. With a client list which includes national and local operators, licensing and responsible authorities he has practical experience of all aspects of licensing and regulatory issues. David is the solicitor instructed by Greene King in their landmark bingo operating licence case. He provides training on all aspects of licensing and is accredited by the British Institute of Innkeeping Awarding Body (BIIAB). David is also regional Chairman of the Institute of Licensing (East Midlands) and a member of the Board of the Institute. He has contributed to Paterson's Licensing Acts (Butterworths) on the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005.
Dr. Ruth Cherrington	Club Historians	A leading authority on the history, development and decline of Working Men’s Clubs. Brought up on a post-war housing estate where most residents regularly used the local club, Ruth witnessed the centrality of this institution to people’s lives. Decades later she combined her sociological training with personal experiences and insights to document this club. On seeing how little had been written generally on this theme, her project extended into tracing the club movement from its 19th century origins to the present day. Her book ‘Not Just Beer and Bingo! A social history of working men’s clubs’, was published in 2012. She has written academic articles on this subject and has presented at various conferences. She gives regular media interviews on clubs related issues, and is the owner/editor of the website www.clubhistorians.co.uk. A member of the Warwick Drinking Studies Network, Ruth is currently Employability Manager at the School of Business and Law, University of East London.