Kent Law School Lecturer Dr Donal Casey has been awarded close to \u00a37,700 for a pilot study on the role of test houses in gambling regulation.<\/p>\n
Dr Casey secured almost\u00a0\u00a35,000 from Kent’s Social Sciences Faculty Research Fund and\u00a0\u00a32,700 from the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Research Grants Scheme\u00a0for his\u00a0project ‘The Glue that Keeps Compliance Stuck together: the Role of Test Houses in Online Gambling Regulation’.<\/p>\n
The money will fund\u00a0a pilot study which\u00a0will entail interviews with test house<\/a> employees, regulators and operators in\u00a0England, Wales and Gibraltar.<\/p>\n Between 2015 and 2017, Dr Casey<\/a> was a co-investigator in The Bingo Project, a research project funded by a \u00a30.5m grant from the Economic and Social Research Council that explored bingo regulation around the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2018, Dr Casey was a guest editor<\/a> for a special issue of the Journal of Law and Social Policy<\/em>. The special volume – Volume 30<\/a> – comprised 13 articles offering an interdisciplinary exploration of gambling regulation. The volume\u2019s introductory article, \u2018Keeping Chance in Its Place: The Socio-Legal Regulation of Gambling\u2019 was co-authored by Dr Casey, Professor Kate Bedford (University of Birmingham) and Dr Alexandra Flynn (University of Toronto). Dr Casey\u2019s article on \u2018Risk, Charity, and Boundary Disputes: The Liberalisation and Commercialisation of Online Bingo in the European Union\u2019 was also included in the volume. In it, he explores the diverse political-economic meaning attached to bingo and how this shapes the regulation of online bingo in EU Member States.<\/p>\n Dr Casey\u2019s research examines transnational and non-state regulation. In particular, he is interested in how regulatory actors seek to legitimate their activities and how states and other actors govern through particular frameworks of risk. His research has also been published in Regulation & Governance<\/em>, the\u00a0European Law Journal<\/em>, the Journal of Law and Society <\/em>and\u00a0the British Food Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n