Appointment of New Board of Editors

Critical Gambling Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Sylvia Kairouz, Eva Monson, Martin French, and Annie-Claude Savard as the new board of editors, starting on May 1, 2026. As close colleagues, they have been collaborating for many years, publishing extensively together and working together across 38 research projects in the province of Quebec in Canada.

Sylvia Kairouz is a full professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. She has published extensively in sociology, social epidemiology and public health journals and won the Brain Star Award of the Canadian Institute of Health Research for her innovative work on the role of social contexts in addictive consumptions. She is the holder of the Research Chair on Gambling, and co-founder of the CHANCE Collaboratory, which studies the intersections of digital gaming, gambling, and society.

Martin French is an associate professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, specialising in the social dimensions of technology, with an emphasis on risk, surveillance, privacy, and social justice. He is the co-founder of the CHANCE Collaboratory and a member of the Risk Logics research group.

Annie-Claude Savard is an associate professor in the School of Social Work and Criminology at Université Laval and researcher at the Institut universitaire sur les dépendances, the HERMÈS team and the Centre international de criminologie comparée.

Eva Monson is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke with a background in psychiatric epidemiology, population health, and sociology. She is also the founder of the international Research and Networking for Gambling Early-Career Scholars (RANGES) network that aims to address current evolving issues within the gambling field and the specific needs of early career researchers.

“We unreservedly support this team and are excited to see what directions they will take the journal. We believe that team will provide new ideas, resources and inspiration for the journal,” said Dr. Kate Bedford, who has been editor of CGS for five years, “in a wider context where cutting-edge, critical, genuinely interdisciplinary scholarship on gambling is urgently needed.”

CGS would also like to thank the previous editors, Fiona Nicoll, Kate Bedford, and Emma Casey, for all their efforts over the past five years in founding and developing the journal. We thank them sincerely for their years of dedication to building the journal and building a community of academics and researchers that provides an integral space for this work. Fiona Nicoll will continue on as the book reviews editor while both Kate Bedford and Emma Casey will continue to support the journal as members of the editorial board.