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Published: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 https://www.gowanbo.cc
Expert organised largest yet online gambling player study
Dr Jonathan Parke, the Nottingham Trent University academic who made an international name for himself handling for eCOGRA the largest survey yet on online gambling late last year is to move to Salford University.
Respected for his thoroughness and attention to detail, Parke holds a PhD in fruit machine gambling. He handled the complex eCOGRA study of over 11 000 respondents around the globe with aplomb, producing a highly detailed yet wide-ranging picture of gamblers' perspectives on the industry which is still frequently referenced.
Parke joins The Centre for the Study of Gambling at Salford University, where he has been appointed senior researcher and lecturer and will work with Professor Peter Collins.
“I would like to work with Peter to make gambling more accepted as an academic discipline and to take our quality empirical research out there to inform policy given that a lot of policy is currently decided in a vacuum,” Collins commented. |
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