Register of interests

November 2019 - September 2020 Director of Development and Improvement, The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) (registered charity SC037475)***

• January 2020 the Gambling Commission approved funding, via regulatory settlements, for the ALLIANCE to lead a three year ‘pathfinder’ project to accelerate the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms by developing structures in Scotland to put the voice of lived experience at heart of its delivery.

• The ALLIANCE is also working in partnership on a ScotPHN led project to develop and implement a ‘whole population’ approach to prevention and reduction of gambling harms in Glasgow with partners. This project is also funded via a regulatory settlement.

*** Cath’s involvement in the delivery of both projects was in her capacity as a Director of Development and Improvement at the ALLIANCE and not in her role on ABSG.

Cath’s consultancy and Associate Director engagement with the ALLIANCE (September 2020 to date) is not in relation to the delivery of these projects. *

Independent consultancy/partner services (no links to the gambling industry).

The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland October-November 2019.

The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland September 2020 to date.

International Futures Forum (registered charity SC038749) July 2020 to date. Includes facilitation for scanning sessions with the National Lottery Community Fund Team.

Independent consultancy services (no links to the gambling industry)

Practice Advisor, International Futures Forum Nov 2018-July 2020

Certified Optimize Coach

Certified HeartMath Trainer

The WELWorld Leadership Coach.

Cath’s brother, Paul Francis Cooney, is a non-executive Director of the Hamilton Park Racecourse Company Ltd and a Trustee of Hamilton Park Trust. He has held both positions for approximately 8 years on a pro bono basis.

Non-Executive Director Kent Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network

Non-Executive Director Sussex Partnership NHS Trust

Chair Business Oversight Board The Law Society of England and Wales

Assessor, Q Community The Health Foundation

Visiting Professor of Ethics and Regulation University of Surrey

Member, Research Expert Advisory Group Australian Health Practitioner Regulatory Agency

Self-employment

Provision of clinical psychology services to:

Clinical Partners (2015-Present) sessional provision of specialist psychological assessment and treatment

Beaumaris Group (2019-) medico-legal consultancy assessments and reports.

Director of Public Health Research and Consultant in Public Health Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

NIHR Clinical Research Network National Specialty Lead for Public Health

Currently receive funding as a co-applicant for a number of research studies funded by UKPRP, MRC, ESRC, BHF, Kidney Research UK; and am Population Health Lead for the NIHR ARC Yorkshire & Humber

Core member of the NICE Public Health Advisory Committees (PHAC B)

Member of the PHE Independent Advisory Panel on Data Release

Member of the DHSC Public Health Operational Group

Member of the City of Bradfor Metropolitan District Council Living Well Board and Bradford & Airedale Integration & Change Board

Editorial Board member for Scientific Reports

Senior Research Fellow in Social and Community Medicine, Department of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol (honorary contract)

Surrey County Council, Head of the National Trading Standards Scams Team

Phone Paid Services Consumer Panel Member

Chartered Trading Standards Institute Leaflet contributor

Various pieces for work for NICO law enforcement advice, guidance and training

Vice Chair of Governors at Gildredge House Free School Eastbourne

Employed at the University of Liverpool Management School on a fractional (20%) contract.

Consulting through University of Liverpool (2015) analysis of betting markets to detect match fixing (£20,000)

Participation in three projects funded by GambleAware during 2014 to 2017 to examine individual level casino player data supplied by Rank Group plc and to measure the impact of the FOBT £50 Regulations (total for three projects approx £45,000)

Participation in a research project led by Ipsos Mori and funded by GambleAware on gambling by young people. The report will be due in 2018 and £20,000 has been earmarked for David’s part in the research.

A 2016 Report for the American Gaming Association on how sports betting might be regulated in America (approx. £7,000).

Ongoing work with EU Athletes (player unions) on anti-match fixing issues, projects funded by European Commission (daily rate as set down by EC)

Engaged by The Ritz Club, December 2017, to write a Report on how it uses statistics to detect potentially problematic play.

In 2018, completed a project (with Prof. I.G. McHale) for GambleAware analysing gambling information in the ALSPAC data set.

In 2018, produced a report with Prof. I.G. McHale, “Analysis of play among British online gamblers on slots and other casino-style games”, commissioned by GambleAware.

Currently working as part of the NatCen team on the “Patterns of Play” project funded by GambleAware.

Academic research in fields of gambling and sport. Member of the Advisory Board of International Gambling Studies.

University of Liverpool (part time)

Medico-legal consultancy - no involvement with gambling

Chair of Alcohol Health Alliance UK

Methodist Church (3 days a week) as Team Leader of the Joint Public Issues Team which works on behalf of the Methodist, Baptist, United Reformed Church and Church of Scotland on a range of policy issues, including gambling.

Honorary Senior Teaching Fellow, University College London

Honorary Teaching fellow, University of South Wales

Consultancy services to the Washington Ireland Programme for Service and Leadership (Leadership Curriculum review and development 2019/2020)

Consultancy services (ad hoc advisory Q4 2019) to Social Work England (NB Commercial in confidence)

Project Advisor: Strengthening Regulation in Kenya & Uganda (Warwick Business School, 2019)

Project Advisor: Professionalism, Regulation and Trust (University College London, 2019)