Seed Grant - for Research on Lottery Gambling

The International Center for Responsible Gaming and the Hoosier Lottery are collaborating on a special initiative to encourage research on responsible gambling and gambling disorder as it relates to lottery gambling. Research projects may include but are not limited to:

• Stand-alone research projects or a pilot project;
• Preliminary research in preparation for a large research project, such as a comprehensive literature review, or instrument development and testing; and
• Research tasks subsequent to a full research project, such as follow-up testing.

Topics of Interest – Not Requirements:

• Examining strategies that promote the responsible gaming principles of positive play, harm minimization and treatment referral for lottery players
• Identifying the positive or negative factors that influence behaviors and beliefs among lottery players who may be at risk for problem gambling
• Determining innovative methods to reach and connect lottery players with educational resources or treatment providers
• Understanding the role technology plays in the promotion of positive play attributes or treatment of gambling disorder among lottery players
• Examining the implementation of responsible gambling principles, especially those with the least amount of research specific to lotteries; specifically, employee training, stakeholder engagement and program evaluation
  

Allowable Cost Items:

• Personnel. Allowable personnel expenses include salary and applicable fringe benefits for the PI, post-docs and graduate students (if they receive a salary) and other professional and technical staff.
• Consultant Costs. Identify consultants by name and estimate the number of days of service and rate of compensation.
• Study participants. Costs of recruitment (e.g., purchase of advertising), payments to subjects, patient care and other costs associated with the use of participants in the study.
• Facilities and Administration. Up to $5,000.
  
• Travel. ICRG grantees are required to present a poster at the annual ICRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction. Budget for travel to the conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.