The International Center for Responsible Gaming (ICRG) invites investigators to apply for a two-year Large Grant to study the impact of gambling advertising, including television, digital, and push notifications. The goal of this initiative is to determine the aspects of advertising that might promote risky or problematic gambling attitudes and behaviors and provide metrics for the development of advertising guidelines for gambling operators and regulators.

Examples of eligible projects include:

• Controlled experiments assessing the physiological, cognitive, emotional and/or behavioral effect of different types of messages, including messaging promoting gambling availability, messaging promoting less risky gambling and messages warning of harm.
• Studies of awareness of advertisements in different populations of people who gamble (emerging adults, vulnerable populations, different cultural groups).
• Studies of methods of effectively promoting responsible gambling tools such as gambling helplines and self-exclusion. 
  

The ICRG seeks proposals of high scientific merit from investigators who show promise of disseminating their work at high-impact conferences and in peer-reviewed scientific journals. 

Allowable Cost Items:

• Personnel. Allowable personnel expenses include salary and applicable fringe benefits for the Principal Investigator, 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.
• Equipment. Only equipment essential to the conduct of this project is allowed.
• Human subjects. 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 & Administration costs. Up to 15 percent of the total direct costs.
• 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 in the second year of the grant. 

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)