Call for Editors

2025-05-21

Critical Gambling Studies is an open access, double-anonymous, peer-reviewed journal published bi-annually. The journal welcomes original research and writing from researchers working in established disciplines including: philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, criminology, aesthetics, history, economics, literature, theology, art history and architecture, tourism and leisure studies, public health, and law. We are also keen to consider interdisciplinary approaches to gambling research within an activist tradition.

Statement from the Editors | Fiona Nicoll, Kate Bedford, Emma Casey

Since its launch in 2019 Critical Gambling Studies has opened up new spaces for gambling research. We are proud that it has worked towards strengthening research integrity within gambling studies, showcase early career research, opened up opportunities for graduate students and early career researchers and work towards promoting a better gender balance within gambling research. The journal includes space for blogs, book reviews, commentaries and online events in addition to peer reviewed so authored academic articles around the broad theme of critical gambling studies. Recently the journal has launched new initiatives and Special Issues, including for example, Critical Directions in Early Career Gambling Studies and Critical Indigenous Gambling Studies. The journal is truly interdisciplinary, attending to what we see as an urgent need for an increased presence of humanities and social science scholarship into gambling.

Critical Gambling Studies exists within a moment of significant challenges and opportunities in terms of open access publishing. The journal is looking for editors who are poised to rise to this challenge. The editors will shape the profile of the journal and will drive its development. In doing so, they will make an important contribution to the advancement of critical gambling studies. We are looking for editors who will support, promote and develop the core principles of the journal as follows:

  1. To ensure that the gambling research that we publish is ethical and accountable to public funders
  2. To provide a sustainable platform for scholars in multiple disciplines— including humanities and social sciences—to publish academic research on gambling
  3. To recognize and include the voices of those with lived experience of gambling
  4. To engage with Indigenous research on gambling and the priorities of Indigenous stakeholders
  5. To make research on gambling more accessible to non-academic audiences, through open access academic publications, alongside blogs and commentaries
  6. To encourage better collaboration between academic researchers and other stakeholders, e.g., policy unit and third sector organisations
  7. To support genuinely open access knowledge and to foster ‘open, sustainable, and responsible models of scholarly communication [and] to create a more equitable and robust scholarly communications ecosystem’ (UA Library 2024).

About the Role

We are looking for 2-3 editors to lead on the vision of Critical Gambling Studies, to manage the editorial team, representing the journal and weighing in on ethical issues or disputes.

In addition to adhering to the core principles of the journal as stated above, editorial responsibilities include the following:

  1. To develop the national and international profiles of Critical Gambling Studies
  2. To oversee the peer review process and making editorial judgments on what is to be published
  3. To continue to build a strong working with the Editorial Board
  4. To report to the annual Editorial Board meetings
  5. To help to shape relevant current and future trends in the fields catered to by the journal
  6. To develop the journal’s social media presence, working to publicize content, and enhancing the reach, standing and significance of the journal
  7. To represent Critical Gambling Studies at national and international conferences and other relevant events

To Apply

Please contact the current editors with any questions. To apply for the position, please prepare a page of A4 explaining:

  1. Why you are interested in editing Critical Gambling Studies
  2. What you can bring to the role, including your existing relevant experience
  3. What you envisage for the future of the journal, including any ideas and plans that you may have

Please send this by September 1, 2025 to Tina Sang at ttsang@ualberta.ca.