New funding for gambling research

Applications for funding are now open for round nine of the Foundation’s Grants for Gambling Research Program.

Researchers are invited to submit proposals focused on the following themes:

• exploring issues concerning gambling in vulnerable populations:
  • Aboriginal Victorians
  • culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities, or
  • older Victorians
• intersections between gambling and family violence.

Applications will be accepted for both in-depth investigative grants (up to $200,000 over 3 years), and early career researchers (up to $50,000 over 2 years).

Applications must demonstrate connection with, and relevance to, the Victorian population.

Please see tender number: VRGF 3-17 on www.tenders.vic.gov.au for an application pack and further details.

The closing date for applications is 5pm Friday, 8 September 2017.

About the program

The Grants for Gambling Research Program aims to encourage researchers from a variety of disciplines to undertake independent, investigator-initiated research into gambling and problem gambling.

Read more about the Grants for Gambling Research Program.

More about research

Read more about the Foundation’s research program.