Dr Martin Young, BA(UNE), BA(Hon)(UNE), PhD(JCU) After completing a BA (Hons) in human geography at the University of New England in 1992, Martin moved to James Cook University and the tropics to conduct his doctoral research about the way in which ‘natural’ places (in this case the Daintree and Cape Tribulation area of far north Queensland) are socially constructed. After a stint working on a social impact assessment in the context of commercial fisheries along the Queensland coast, Martin moved to the UK where he was employed by the Department of Sociology, Plymouth, to develop a research program on the social impacts of gambling deregulation. Martin returned to the tropics, this time to Darwin, Northern Territory (NT), to commence work with the School for Social and Policy Research, Charles Darwin University, in 2004. From 2004-2010 he developed a gambling research program relevant to non-metropolitan contexts. The program comprised a series of related research projects which investigated the patterns of gambling participation among the NT population; effects of gambling on particular populations (including Indigenous people); estimation and assessment of problem gambling; social impacts of gambling venues; and analysis of gambling policy and regulation. Martin took up a Senior Lecturer position at the Centre for Gambling Education and Research, Southern Cross University, early in 2011. Research interests • Spatial relationship between gambling venues and supporting communities • Gambling supply structures and the distribution of gambling-related harm • The sociology of gambling production and consumption • Social production and consumption of tourist places • Causes and consequences of population mobility
Journal articles
Gambling, resource distribution, and racial economy: an examination of poker machine expenditure in three remote Australian towns (with David Lamb and Bruce Doran), Geographical Research (2011)
Our aim in this paper is to examine the ways in which electronic gaming machines(EGMs)...
Betting on the evidence: reported gambling problems among the Indigenous population of the Northern Territory (with Matthew Stevens), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (2010)
Objectives: To address a shortfall in evidence with which to justify gambling-specific interventions for the...
Gambling, capitalism and the state: towards a new dialectic of the risk society?, Journal of Consumer Culture (2010)
In this article I explore the relationships between commercial gambling and late capitalism. In particular,...
Independent correlates of reported gambling problems amongst Indigenous Australians (with Matthew Stevens), Social Indicators Research (2010)
To identify independent correlates of reported gambling problems amongst the Indigenous population of Australia. A...
‘Mobile mindsets’: EGM venue usage, gambling participation, and problem gambling among three itinerant groups on the Sunshine Coast of Australia (with Bruce Doran), International Gambling Studies (2010)
Mobile populations form an increasingly important part of many communities, yet tend to be neglected...