Gillian Russell
CJRC-Abington- Assistant Research Professor
1095 Rydal Road Jenkintown, PA 19046 US
Phone: (215) 881-7340
Biography:
Gillian Russell is an Assistant Research Professor with the Criminal Justice Research Center at Penn State Abington. Gillian’s primary research interests are the influences of cognition on addictive behaviours (including both behavioural addictions and substance related addictions). Her secondary line of research is investigating the intersecting worlds of gambling and video gaming and factors that influence engagement in or problems with either behaviour. She is currently acting as the project coordinator for the Interactive Gaming project, an annual assessment of the impacts of online gambling (also referred to as interactive gaming) being legalized in the state of Pennsylvania.
Gillian earned her MSc in Psychology at the University of Lethbridge in 2017, where her thesis explored the relationship between implicit memory associations and gambling behaviours and problem gambling. She obtained her BSc in Psychology in 2015 from the University of British Columbia – Okanagan. She is currently a PhD candidate in Evolution and Behaviour at the University of Lethbridge, with her dissertation work focused on the longitudinal relationship between implicit memory associations and gambling behaviours and problem gambling in both adult and adolescent populations.