Role
Andrew is a lecturer with the psychology department and member of the International Gaming Research Unit (IGRU), specialising in behavioural addictions, with a focus on gambling and risk-taking behaviour. His more recent research focuses on the structural characteristics of electronic gambling products, exploring how factors including the speed of games impair executive control functioning and facilitate impulsive actions and impulsive choice.
He is currently associate course leader for the MSc Psychology course, and module leader for the Applied Psychology of Digital Technologies module on the MSc Cyberpsychology course. His lectures cover topics including theories and application of attention and dual-task performance; problem solving; freemium gaming; video game violence and aggression; and electronic gambling. He also teaches undergraduate research methods and tutorial programmes, as well as supervising undergraduate, MSc, and PhD students.
Career overview
Andrew spent 5 years as a Commissioned Officer in the Royal Air Force before transitioning to a career in psychology. He achieved a first-class honours BSc in Psychology and Clinical Psychology at the University of Lincoln and was awarded the British Psychological Society Award for Undergraduate Psychology. Andrew then worked as a Research Associate at Lincoln on a 12-month funded project investigating behavioural and biological markers of harm resulting from high stakes gambling. Andrew then worked for the Responsible Gambling Trust (now known as GambleAware) helping to set up the first national level data reporting framework for the treatment of pathological and problem gambling. Andrew then started a 3-year PhD at Nottingham Trent University, conducting experimental research investigating how structural characteristics in electronic gambling impair executive control functioning, as well as developing and testing gambling harm-minimisation tools. Alongside his PhD, Andrew remained on a part-time contract with the Responsible Gambling Trust and later obtained a fixed term lecturing position at Loughborough University in social psychology. Andrew started at NTU as a full-time lecturer in 2018, where he is currently associate course leader for the MSc/PGDiP Psychology course and module leader for the Applied Psychology of Digital Technologies MSc Cyberpsychology module. He is also a School Research Ethics Committee and Equality Diversity and Inclusivity Committee member.
Research areas
Andrew's primary area of research is gambling and risk-taking behaviour. His more recent research focuses on the structural characteristics of electronic gambling products, exploring how factors including the speed of games impair executive control functioning and facilitate impulsive actions and impulsive choice.
External activity
Andrew's external activities have included:
Consultancy work in the field of responsible gambling and gambling harm-minimisation.
External Examiner for the University of the West of Scotland
Publications
Harris, A., Gous, G., de Wet, B., & Griffiths, M. D. (2020). The Relationship Between Gambling Event Frequency, Motor Response Inhibition, Arousal, and Dissociative Experience. Journal of Gambling Studies, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-020-09955-0.
Kircaburun, K., Stavropoulos, V., Harris, A., Calado, F., Emirtekin, E., & Griffiths, M. D. (2020). Development and Validation of the Mukbang Addiction Scale. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, DOI.org/10.1007/s11469-019-00210-1.
Kircaburun, K., Harris, A., Calado, F., & Griffiths, M. D. (2020). The Psychology of Mukbang Watching: A Scoping Review of the Academic and Non-academic Literature. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, DOI.org/10.1007/s11469-019-00211-0.
Kircaburan, K., Harris, A., Calado, F., & Griffiths, M. D. (2020). The association of addictive mukbang watching with mukbang watching motives, emotion regulation, impulsivity, and psychiatric distress. Journal of Concurrent Disorders, Vol. (TBD) No. (TBD) , 2020 (pp. TBD).
Harris, A., Kuss, D., & Griffiths, M.D. (2018). Gambling, motor cautiousness, and choice impulsivity: An experimental study. Journal of Behavioural Addictions, 7(4), 1030-1043.
Harris, A., & Griffiths, M. D. (2017). The impact of speed of play in gambling on psychological and behavioural factors: A critical review. Journal of Gambling Studies, DOI: 10.1007/s10899-017-9701-7.
Harris, A., Griffiths, M. D., & Parke, A. (2016). The case for using personally relevant and emotive messaging to facilitate self-control during gambling. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, DOI 10.1007/s11469-016-9698-7.
Harris, A., & Griffiths, M. D. (2016). A critical review of the harm-minimisation tools available for electronic gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, DOI: 10.1007/s10899-016-9624-8.
Griffiths, M.D., Harris, A., & Auer, M. (2016). A brief overview of behavioural feedback in promoting responsible gambling. Casino and Gaming International (May 2016 edition).
Harris, A., & Parke, A. (2015). Empirical evidence for the differential impact of gambling outcome on behaviour in electronic gambling: Implications for harm-minimisation strategies. Responsible Gambling Review 1 (2).
Harris, A., & Parke, A. (2015). The interaction of gambling outcome and gambling harm-minimisation strategies for electronic gambling: The efficacy of computer generated self-appraisal messaging. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. DOI 10.1007/s11469-015-9581-y.
Parke, A., Harris, A., Parke, J., & Goddard, P. (2015).Understanding Within-Session Loss-Chasing: An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Stake Size on Cognitive Control. Journal of Gambling Studies, DOI 10.1007/s10899-015-9570-x.
Parke, A. J., Harris , A., Parke, J. and Goddard, P.(2014).The Role of Stake Size in Loss of Control in Within Session Gambling: Impact of Stake Size on Reflection Impulsivity, Response Inhibition and Arousal when Gambling on a Simulated Virtual Roulette Gambling Task: Implications for Gambling-Related Harm. London: Responsible Gambling Trust.
Blaszczynski, A. Parke, A . J., Harris, A., Parke, J., & Rigbye, J. (2014). Facilitating Player Control during Gambling. The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, 8 (3), 36-51.
Parke, A . J., Harris, A., Parke, J. Rigbye, J., & Blaszczynski, A. (2014). Facilitating awareness and informed choice in gambling. The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, 8 (3), 6-20.
Parke, A . J., Harris, A., Parke, J. Rigbye, J., & Blaszczynski, A. (2014). Responsible marketing and advertising in gambling: A critical review. The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, 8 (3), 21-35.
Parke, J., Parke, A., Harris, A., Rigbye, J., & Blaszczynski, A. (2014). Restricting Access: Self-Exclusion as a Gambling Harm Minimisation Measure in Great Britain. The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, 8 (3), 52-92.