Our People
Elliot A. Ludvig
Dr. Elliot Ludvig is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick.
Office: H1.21 Humanities Building
Phone: +44 (024) 765 23151
Email: E.Ludvig@Warwick.ac.uk
Warwick Profile: @ElliotLudvig
X (Twitter): @ealudvig
Recent publications
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Lukasz Walasek
Dr. Lukasz Walasek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick.
Office: H1.09 Humanities Building
Phone: +44 (024)
Email: L.Walasek@warwick.ac.uk
Recent publications
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Naomi Muggleton
Naomi Muggleton is an Associate Professor at Warwick Business School. She is a member of the UK Government’s College of Experts and the Gambling Harms Advisory Panel at Money and Mental Health. As Principal Investigator on a major Gambling Commission collaboration, she leads work combining open banking and survey data to inform national gambling regulation. Her research on gambling behaviour, financial decision-making, and inequality has contributed to recent changes in UK gambling law and has been published in journals including Nature Human Behaviour, Addiction, and International Gambling Studies.
Office: 3.115
Phone: 02476151327
Email: Naomi.Muggleton@wbs.ac.uk
Recent publications
- Muggleton, N., Parpart, P., Newall, P., Leake, D., Gathergood, J. & Stewart, N. (2021) The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in big financial data. Nature Human Behaviour.
- Muggleton, N. (2024) Redefining harm: The role of data integration in understanding gambling behaviour. Society for the Study of Addiction.
- Newall, P., Hayes, T., Weiss-Cohen, L., James, R.J.E., Byrne, C.A. & Muggleton, N. (2024) Could the provision of multiple game themes be a neglected gambling product structural characteristic? Results of an online simulated gambling task. International Gambling Studies.
Neil Stewart
Neil is a professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School. Neil's work is about why people behave the way they do, and how we might help change their behaviour---particularly around the way they deal with money. Neil's research combines large databases of financial transactions and large field trials of interventions in collaboration with regulators and retail banks.
Office: 4.011
Email: Neil.Stewart@wbs.ac.uk
Phone: 02476522456
Recent publications
- Muggleton, N., Parpart, P., Newall, P., Leake, D., Gathergood, J., & Stewart, N. (2021). The association between gambling and financial, social, and health outcomes in big financial data. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 319–326.
- Gathergood, J., Gilchrist, C., Griffiths, M. D., Hayes, L., Morris, E., O’Neill, S., Sheth, J. D., & Stewart, N. (2025). Playing the market: A behavioural data analysis of digital engagement practices and investment outcomes. FCA Occasional Paper.
Collaborators
Dr Daniel Bennett
Dr Daniel Bennett is a Senior Lecturer within the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. His research uses the methods of computational cognitive science to study human learning and decision making. A current focus of his research is on understanding decision making within contemporary gambling products such as sports-betting apps and electronic gambling machines.
Email: daniel.bennett@unimelb.edu.au
Recent publications
- Cholewick, A. & Bennett, D. (2025) Hazardous gambling behavior is associated with amplified emotional reactivity to gambling outcomes. Journal of Behavioral Addiction
- Bennett, D., Fulton, A. & Forbes, L. (2024) Chasing emotional losses: Negative subjective affect is linked to increased risk-seeking behavior both within and between individuals. Judgment and Decision Making.
- Bennett, D., Albertella, L., Forbes, L., Hayes, T., Verdejo-Garcia, A., Walasek, L. & Ludvig, E. (2024) People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out. Psychological Science.
Andrew Camara
Andrew Camara began his PhD in 2024 on the cash-out feature in sports betting platforms. In particular, how cash out may increase the risk of gambling-related harm by altering people's risk preferences when gambling. He is currently being supervised by Professor Elliot Ludvig.
Email: Andrew.Camara@warwick.ac.uk
Linkedin: @AndrewCamara
Bluesky: @Andrew-M-Camara
Recent publications
- Camara, A. & Parker, G. (2025) A review of longitudinal studies assessing personality and burnout. Journal of Psychiatric Research.
- Briana L. Kennedy, Andrew M. Camara, & Dominic M.D. Tran. (2024) You eye what you eat: BMI, consumption patterns, and dieting status predict temporal attentional bias to food-associated images.Appetite.