Meet our Team

Dr. David Hodgins

ORCiD: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2737-5200
ResearcherID: F-4201-2011
Google Scholar: D C Hodgins
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Calgary
Phone: (403) 220-3371
Fax: (403) 282-8249
Email: dhodgins@ucalgary.ca

Dr. David C. Hodgins is a professor in the Program in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology, University of Calgary. Dr. Hodgins is also the Head, Department of Psychology and a coordinator with the Alberta Gambling Research Institute. His research interests focus on various aspects of addictive behaviours including relapse and recovery from substance abuse and gambling disorders. He has conducted a number of randomized clinical trials of both brief and more traditional addiction treatment models.  The self-directed treatment model focused on in this project is recognized as an evidence-based treatment by the United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. In 2010, he received the Scientific Achievement Award from the US National Center for Responsible Gaming.  Dr. Hodgins teaches in the clinical psychology program and has an active cadre of graduate students. He maintains a private practice in Calgary in addition to providing consultation to a number of organizations internationally.

Dr. Carrie Shaw

Assistsant Professor & AGRI Research Chair
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta 
Email: cashaw@ualberta.ca 

Dr. Carrie Shaw (nee Leonard), PhD, served as the Project Manager for the AGRI National Project (ANP) and is now collaborating with the ANP-2 team. Her research interests include cognitive and social individual differences, the role those individual difference factors play in erroneous belief formation and the role of erroneous beliefs in problem gambling. Dr. Shaw’s recent publications include: “Characteristics that differentiate online from land-based exclusive gamblers: Results from a national longitudinal study of gambling” (2024), “Gambling in Canada During the Pandemic: 6 Months After the National COVID Lockdown” (2022), “Gambling in Canada During the COVID Lockdown: Prospective National Survey”(2021),”Gambling Fallacies: Predicting Problem Gambling in a National Sample” (2021), “Fallacious beliefs: Gambling specific and belief in the paranormal” (2018), “The relationship between gambling fallacies and problem gambling” (2016), “Gambling Fallacies: What are they and how are they best measured?” (2015), and “Characteristics of good poker players” (2015).”

Dr. Robert Williams

Google Scholar: Robert J. Williams
Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Lethbridge
Phone: (403) 382-7128
Fax: (403) 329-2668
Email: robert.williams@uleth.ca

Dr. Williams is a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge, in Lethbridge, Alberta and also a Research Coordinator for the Alberta Gambling Research Institute.  Dr. Williams teaches courses on gambling; provides frequent consultation to government, industry, the media, and public interest groups; regularly gives expert witness testimony on the impacts of gambling; and is a co-editor of International Gambling Studies.   Dr. Williams is a leading authority in the areas of:  prevention of problem gambling; Internet gambling; the socioeconomic impacts of gambling, the proportion of gambling revenue deriving from problem gamblers; the prevalence and nature of gambling in Aboriginal communities; the etiology of problem gambling; and best practices in the population assessment of problem gambling.