Staff profiles

• Betting Research Unit, Director
• Political Forecasting Unit, Director
• Applied Economics and Policy

• Risk
• Asymmetric information
• Efficiency of markets
• Economics of gambling
• Financial, betting and prediction markets
• Economic and political forecasting

Various sponsored and research and collaborative projects with, for example:

• HM Revenue and Customs 
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport 
• National Audit Office 
• House of Commons/House of Lords 
• Gambling Commission 
• National Lottery Commission 
• Camelot 
• eCogra 
• Intrade.

• HM Revenue and Customs, 2000- taxation of financial instruments
• Camelot, 2009-2010 – randomness in lottery draw
• Gambling Commission, 2008-2009 – prevalence study
• eCogra, 2007-2008 – global online player report
• National Audit Office, 2004-2008 – study of gambling duties
• National Lottery Commission, 2008 – gambling sector analysis
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2002-2010 – economic impacts and productivity of gambling and broadcasting sectors.

• Editor, Economic Issues
• Editor, The Journal of Prediction Markets
• Editor, The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics
• Editorial Board, International Journal of Gambling Studies
• Commissioned Editor/Author of major research collections for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Edward Elgar, Routledge.
• Economic Adviser on taxation, regulation and economic impacts of betting and gaming to HM Revenue and Customs; Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Gambling Commission.
• Expert witness, Joint Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons and House of Lords on the Gambling Bill
• Special Adviser to the National Audit Office, Study of Gambling Duties
• Expert witness, Central Criminal Court ('The Old Bailey')
• Expert witness, Department for Culture, Media and Sport Gambling Review Body
• Expert witness to the Competition Commission on the gambling sector
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
• Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Management, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA
• Director of the 1st to 6th International Conferences on Money, Investment and Risk and of four international conferences on Gambling and Prediction Markets
• Regular contributor on national TV and radio (including ABC News, BBC News, Radio 4 'Today' programme), and the quality press, including the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, the Financial Times and Business Week.

Leighton is interested in supervising research students in the areas of:

• Economics of gambling
• Information efficiency in financial and betting markets
• Prediction markets
• Political forecasting