Charles Livingstone — Monash University

Personal profile

Biography

Dr Charles Livingstone is Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. He is course convenor of the Honours degree of Bachelor of Health Science, and teaches health policy, health systems, and politics into the Bachelor of Health Sciences degree. He is also head of the Gambling and Social Determinants unit within SPHPM. He has research degrees in economics and social theory. Charles's current principal research interest is critical gambling studies, including in particular gambling policy reform and the politics, regulation and social impacts of electronic gambling machine (EGM) gambling.

Charles is a co-convenor of the annual Dangerous Consumption colloquia, which he inaugurated in 2001. Charles is a regular contributor to public debate via popular media, in particular around issues such as the social impact of EGMs, their structural characteristics, and appropriate policy responses to address gambling harms. He was a member of the Australian Government’s Ministerial Expert Advisory Group on Gambling 2010-2012.

Keywords

gambling
Policy and Administration - Health Policy
Social Theory
Addiction
public health

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Projects 2007 2018

21 Finished

FID: Food industry donations to Australian political parties

Livingstone, C. H. & de Lacy-Vawdon, C.

2/10/17 → 28/02/18

Project: Research

Community attitudes towards gambling in the City of Maribyrnong

Livingstone, C. H. & de Lacy-Vawdon, C.

Maribyrnong City Council

1/06/17 → 30/09/17

Project: Research

Community attitudes towards gambling in the City of Maribyrnong

Livingstone, C. H. & de Lacy-Vawdon, C.

1/06/17 → 30/09/17

Project: Research

Identifying effective policy interventions to prevent gambling-related harm

Livingstone, C. H.

30/06/16 → 30/09/17

Project: Research

Community attitudes towards gambling in the City of Whittlesea

Livingstone, C. H. & de Lacy-Vawdon, C.

City of Whittlesea

14/06/16 → 22/12/16

Project: Research

Research Output 2001 2018

23 Article
12 Commissioned Report
7 Letter
3 Chapter (Book)
6 More

A case for clean conferences in gambling research

Livingstone, C. 14 Feb 2018 (Accepted/In press) In : Drug and Alcohol Review. 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate

Open Access

File

Estimating the revenue share of the Farrell Group and other gambling industry participants from gambling operations in Tasmania

Livingstone, C. 7 Feb 2018 Canberra ACT Australia: The Australia Institute. 20 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report

Open Access

File

Health Capability Deprivations in a Rural Swazi Community: Understanding Complexity With Theoretically Informed, Qualitatively Driven, Mixed-Method Design, Participatory Action Research

Brear, M. R., Shabangu, P. N., Fisher, J. R., Hammarberg, K., Keleher, H. M. & Livingstone, C. 19 Apr 2018 (Accepted/In press) In : Qualitative Health Research. p. 1-13 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Hooked on gambling: a problem of human or machine design?

Yücel, M., Carter, A., Harrigan, K., van Holst, R. J. & Livingstone, C. 1 Jan 2018 In : The Lancet Psychiatry. 5, 1, p. 65-78 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter

On gambling research, social science and the consequences of commercial gambling

Livingstone, C. H., Adams, P., Cassidy, R., Markham, F., Reith, G., Rintoul, A., Dow Schull, N., Woolley, R. & Young, M. 2 Jan 2018 In : International Gambling Studies. 18, 1, p. 56-68 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access