Dr Elaine Nuske BSc(Hons)(Salf), MA(Brun), PhD(SCU) Elaine has been teaching at Southern Cross University for 15 years. She teaches counselling and social welfare to students in the Bachelor of Social Sciences. A social worker by professional background, Elaine's research interests currently focus on gambling issues. She is specifically invovled in research relating to problem gambling; help-seeking behaviours of problem gamblers; self exclusion practices and women and gambling issues. She is on secondment to the Centre for Gambling Education and Research at Southern Cross University during 2012.
Journal articles
Assisting problem gamblers in the gaming venue: an assessment of practices and procedures followed by frontline hospitality staff (with Nerilee Hing), International Journal of Hospitality Management (2011)
This study examined how frontline hospitality staff respond to patrons with gambling problems in gaming...
The self-exclusion experience for problem gamblers in South Australia (with Nerilee Hing), Australian Social Work (2011)
Increased prevalence of problem gambling has accompanied the spread of gaming venuesin many parts of...
Activating the teaching-research nexus in smaller universities: case studies highlighting diversity of practice (with William E. Boyd, Meg O'Reilly, Daniel J. Bucher, Kath Fisher, Anja Morton, Peter Lynton Harrison, Rebecca Coyle, and Karyn Rendall), Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (2010)
The teaching-research nexus (TRN) has become an important process in the modern University, providing both...
Assisting problem gamblers in the gaming venue: a counsellor perspective (with Nerilee Hing), International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (2010)
Governments now recognise gambling as a social and public health issue that invites a collaborative...
Balancing contradictions: the experiences of biological children of foster families, Children Australia (2010)
This paper presents findings from a recent research project that provided an opportunity for the...
Conference publications
A narrative analysis of help-seeking behavior for recovered problem gamblers (with Nerilee Hing and John Haw), 20th Annual National Association for Gambling Studies (NAGS) Conference (2010)