Professor Battersby established the FCGR in 2010 as part of the Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit http://www.flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/fhbhru/.

With an extensive background in chronic illness management research and psychiatry, Professor Battersby has established national and international research links with the aim of building an independent gambling research programme to explore the key questions relating to problematic gambling in our community...ie

Peter's research background is in population health and chronic illness management. Prior to this research activity, he taught Mathematics and English in secondary schools in SA , WA and Tonga.

During 1996 to 2004 he led a number of major health research projects, including the rural component of the South Australian Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Coordinated Care Trial and the Sharing Health Care SA chronic disease self-management demonstration project. From 2005-2007, as a chief investigator, Peter led the Centre of Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health established by the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia in collaboration with Flinders University with the support of NH&MRC funding.

As the Director of the Southgate Institute within Flinders University, Professor Baum is a key partner working with the Flinders Centre for Gambling Research and brings a public health policy research capacity to the wider team.

In addition to our research involving problem identification, assessment and treatment, Professor Baum is keen to explore aspects of the modern problem gambling phenomenon from the perspective of the social determinants of human behaviour, health and quality of life.

David is a PhD candidate whose thesis is based on a current FCGR randomised controlled study into the treatment effects of cognitive vs behavioural approaches to therapy for people with gambling disorders. He is a mental health clinician, and has a background in mental health nursing, mathematics and statistics and provides valuable analytical and research support to the Centre.

Dr Pols is a psychiatrist interested in a range of human behaviours around health, wellbeing and addictions. He has a background in chronic condition management and self-management research and works with the FCGR to explore treatment processes and outcomes for clients with gambling problems.

Michael is a psychiatrist with the Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University Human behaviour and Health Research Unit and leads, with Professor Battersby, the Centre for Anxiety and Related Disorders in the Adelaide Health Service. Due to the extent of co-morbidities associated with clients with gambling disorders, Michael's work with anxiety disorders complements the work of the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service and the FCGR.

Kirsten has experience conducting psychological and population-based mental-health research and teaching in related topics. Her research interests include the psychological factors influencing gambling behaviour as well as broader, health-related areas including attitudes and beliefs about health-behaviour and health-literacy.

Kirsten is a registered psychologist working with the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service. She provides cognitive therapy-based treatment and support to clients in the cognitive therapy arm of the current randomised controlled trial run through FCGR.

Amii Larsen

Amii recently graduated with distinction in the master of mental health science programme at Flinders University. In addition to working as a pyscho-therapist for the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service, Amii is completing a qualitative study on the gambling behaviour or young people with a particular focus on on-line gambling.

Ben has a social work background and a master of mental health sciences degree. He runs the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service office in Salisbury in the northern suburbs of Adelaide and provides CBT for clients with gambling disorders.

Jane is a clinical team leader with the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service. She has a mental health nursing background and a master of mental health sciences degree from Flinders University. Her current PhD work explores the relapse process in Electronic Gaming Machine Gambling (EGM) in respect to why people relapse the first time, why people keep relapsing over time and how they stop relapsing to problematic gambling behaviours.
Currently Jane provides behavioural therapy for clients in the behavioural arm of the RCT exploring differences in treatment processes and outcomes of purely cognitive vs purely behavioural therapy.

Sue works with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and Aboriginal communities to improve client access to and uptake of gambling help services in South Australia. She is currently working on a project to modify and validate the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) for use in Aboriginal communities and to adapt and translate therapy approaches for clients in the Vietnamese community in Adelaide.

Rachel is a Research Fellow with the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service and is currently working with longitudinal data sets to track and model longer term clinical and lifestyle changes and outcomes for people treated for gambling addiction. She has 20 years research and clinical experience in the field of addiction from a psychological, pharmacological and public health perspective. She has coordinated international clinical trials for the World Health Organisation on the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) and has developed Brief Intervention models linked to this screen.

Rachel is a registered psychologist and has developed and implemented learning programs for clinicians in drug and alcohol screening and early intervention.

Gaston Antezana
Gaston is a psychotherapist working with the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service. He provides cognitive and behavioural therapy in the treatment of gambling disorders and is currently involved as a therapist in a randomised controlled trial with FCGR.

Gaston has experience working as a clinical psychologist with different populations in South America providing CBT, neuropsychology and systemic psychotherapy. He also has academic experience as a lecturer.

Alun C Jackson PhD, is Professor and Director of the Problem Gambling Treatment Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at LaTrobe University, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Research Fellow of the Centre on Behavioural Health at the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Jackson has been involved in the design and direction of many large-scale research programs including an evaluation of the Victorian Gambler's Help service, an assessment of the health and mental health effects of gambling on women; an analysis of best practice in treatments; a study of the impact of gambling on children and adolescents; a review of prevalence measures; and the design of practice standards. He has also worked with the Australian Institute for Gambling Research on a range of studies with State governments relating to prevalence, service design and the design of industry-specific and whole of industry responsible gambling policies.

Professor Robert Ladouceur

Professor Robert Ladouceur is Professor Emeritus at the school of Psychology at the Université Laval de Québec. He completed postdoctoral studies at Temple University in Philadelphia and during his academic career has published over 400 scientific papers and written or edited 5 books.

On two occasions he was invited to present his work to the members of the US presidential commission on the impacts of gambling; a commission created by President Bill Clinton. In 1996, he received a Research Award from the National Council on Problem Gambling; a distinction given by the Americans to highlight the best researcher in the this field.

Prior to joining AUT Professor Abbott was National Director of the Mental Health Foundation and President of the World Federation for Mental Health - positions involving advocacy and service provision to improve the lives of people experiencing mental health problems.

He came to AUT to lead the development of a Faculty that would contribute significantly to the knowledge base for effective health policy and practice and prepare health and related professionals to make a positive difference to the communities they serve. The Faculty has become New Zealand's largest and most diverse health science education provider.