AFSG Minor Exploratory Grant Funding - Simon van Baal

CDR member Simon van Baal has received an AFSG Minor Exploratory Grant Funding (https://afsg.org/funding/). Together with his colleagues, Philip Newall and Lukasz Walasek, Simon will examine how scores on the main measurement tool for gambling harm (Problem Gambling Severity Index) relate to real-life experiences of gambling. At the moment, an arbitrary cut-off is used to decide whether gambling harm is present - the research team believes they can use natural language processing to promote our understanding what kind of person/gambling harm profile might be behind different patterns of answers on the PGSI.