About the GHRUK Evidence Centre

A distinctive doctoral training experience

The GHRUK Evidence Centre PhD studentships will provide an exciting four-year experience. 

The first six months will be a development phase where you will come together with the other studentship holders for cohort-based training that will build your research skills and knowledge. You will meet key decision-makers in gambling policy and practice and learn how your research can make a difference to the world.

You will also work with leading researchers within the GHRUK Evidence Centre on a 12-week research placement to explore topics in greater depth and build working relationships with potential supervisors. Alongside this, you will develop your research plans, receiving feedback along the way from your fellow students, the GHRUK Evidence Centre leadership team, key stakeholders and people with lived experience of gambling harms. All of this will build your confidence, expand your ideas and help you to hit the ground running with your research. 

The following three-and-a-half years will be focused on your own research project. However, you will be part of a larger cohort of PhD students and early career researchers within the wider GHRUK network.

You will join your peers in attending network events, developing new training opportunities and building collaborations that can enhance your research and future plans. You will also have the opportunity to undertake further research or policy placement within the network or with our partners in government, charitable organisations or public health practice. All of our students will also design a personalised training plan with their supervisor to ensure they complete their PhD with the skills and experience needed to take the next steps in their career. 

About the GHRUK Evidence Centre

The GHRUK Evidence Centre is a new £10m initiative funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). It will coordinate an extensive five-year research programme aiming to transform understanding of gambling and gambling related harms. We will develop new insights into the complexity of commercial gambling, identify effective approaches to prevent gambling problems and build improved data resources that unlock new opportunities for analysis. We will also be a leading and trusted voice in public debate within the UK and internationally, speaking directly to governments, health authorities, charities and the public. In addition to carrying out its own research, the Centre will work closely with a network of UKRI Gambling Harms Research and Innovation Partnerships (GHRIPs), each of which will deliver a separate large-scale research programme on a specific topic area.