News

Thursday 2 February 2006

National fellowship award for University academic

A top national Fellowship is to be awarded to a Nottingham Trent University academic in recognition of his ‘exceptional contribution to psychology’. Professor Mark Griffiths – Europe’s only Professor of Gambling Studies – is to receive the award from the British Psychological Society (BPS) at its annual conference in Cardiff in March.

Only a small number of Fellowships are awarded nationally each year and are given to individuals who the BPS describe as 'having made an outstanding contribution to the advancement or dissemination of psychological knowledge or practice either by their research, teaching, publication or public service’.

Professor Griffiths, from the University’s School of Social Sciences, said: “I am absolutely delighted to have been awarded such a prestigious Fellowship. It is an honour to have the work that I do recognised by my peers and by such an internationally renowned body as the BPS.”

Coincidentally at the same conference, Professor Griffiths will also receive the 2006 BPS Excellence in Teaching Award for distinguished contributions to the teaching of psychology.

He was nominated for the Fellowship by former BPS President, Professor Steve Newstead (University of Plymouth) and Professor Peter Bull (University of York). The award is in recognition of his ‘prolific publications and dissemination in the field of behavioural addictions’.

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Notes for editors: Professor Griffiths is internationally known for his work on gambling and gaming addictions. He has won three international research awards including the 1994 John Rosecrance Research Prize for ‘Outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of gambling research’, the 1998 CELEJ Prize for best research paper on gambling, and the 2003 International Excellence Award for ‘the extraordinary contribution made to problem gambling over many years’.

In 2004 he also won the Joseph Lister Prize for Social Sciences awarded by the British Association for the Advancement of Science for being one of the UK’s “outstanding scientific communicators.”

At 39, he is one of the youngest professors in the UK but has already published over 160 refereed research papers, numerous book chapters and over 400 other articles.

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