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Sylvia Kairouz

ResearcherSociologie et anthropologieConcordia University

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Sylvia Kairouz

Researcher

Sociologie et anthropologie

Health Sciences

Concordia University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
15 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (3 CIHR, 2 SSHRC), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2021.

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Research

Awareness Gambling Harm And Problems Governance Indigenous Community Prevention Self-Determination Sharing Circles Survey

Latest papers

Long‑Term Gambling Disorder Care Trajectories and Associated Patient Characteristics and Quality of Care.
Journal of gambling studies · 2026
Gambling and the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Quebec (Canada): results from an online cross-sectional survey of people who had gambled within the last 12 months.
BMJ open · 2026 · senior author
Online gambling during the COVID-19 pandemic: do living conditions matter?
BMC public health · 2025

All 30 publications

Latest funding

How to Resist Addiction by Design (H2RABD): Cultivating Critical Play for a Gamblified Era
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$386,409
ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke: an ongoing dialogue.
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$592,876
Exploring the effects of a rapidly evolving gambling landscape on socio-economic inequality in gambling related harm: Implications for postpandemic recovery
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$249,666

All 15 grants and awards

30 publications.

Long‑Term Gambling Disorder Care Trajectories and Associated Patient Characteristics and Quality of Care.

Fleury MJ, Cao Z, Grenier G, Kairouz S, Ferland F

Journal of gambling studies2026

DOI: 10.1007/s10899-026-10540-0 PMID: 42521894

Gambling and the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Quebec (Canada): results from an online cross-sectional survey of people who had gambled within the last 12 months.

Brodeur M, Fortier MÈ, Carrier N, Audette-Chapdelaine S, Auger AM, Savard AC, Kairouz S

BMJ open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097944 PMID: 41887629

Online gambling during the COVID-19 pandemic: do living conditions matter?

Côté M, Kairouz S, Savard AC, Brodeur M

BMC public health2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-25135-4 PMID: 41387820

Distinguishing Persistent Versus Episodic Clusters of At-Risk Respondents on the Problem Gambling Severity Index.

Murch WS, Scheurich R, Monson E, French M, Kairouz S

Journal of gambling studies2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10899-025-10386-y PMID: 40338426

A portrait of online gambling: a look at a transformation amid a pandemic.

Kairouz S, Savard AC, Murch WS, Dixon MR, Martin NB, Brodeur M, Dauphinais S, Ferland F, Hamel D, Dufour M, French M, Monson E, Van Mourik V, Morvannou A

Harm reduction journal2025First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-025-01265-1 PMID: 40770758

"It would Never have Happened Without the Pandemic": Understanding the Lived Experience of Individuals who Increased Their Online Gambling Participation.

Savard AC, Kairouz S, Nadeau-Tremblay J, Brodeur M, Ferland F, French M, Morvannou A, Blanchette-Martin N, Dufour M, VanMourik V, Monson E

Journal of gambling studies2025

DOI: 10.1007/s10899-024-10336-0 PMID: 39115755

Simulated Gambling: An Explorative Study Based on a Representative Survey.

Fiedler I, Ante L, Meduna MV, Steinmetz F, Kairouz S, Costes JM

Journal of gambling studies2024

DOI: 10.1007/s10899-023-10190-6 PMID: 36757603

Using machine learning to retrospectively predict self-reported gambling problems in Quebec.

Murch WS, Kairouz S, Dauphinais S, Picard E, Costes JM, French M

Addiction (Abingdon, England)2023

DOI: 10.1111/add.16179 PMID: 36880253

Online Gambling Practices and Related Problems in Five European Countries: Findings from the Electronic Gam(bl)ing Multinational Empirical Survey (E-GAMES) Project.

Costes JM, Kairouz S, Fiedler I, Bartczuk RP, Lelonkek-Kuleta B, Minutillo A, Notari L

Journal of gambling studies2023

DOI: 10.1007/s10899-023-10229-8 PMID: 37466781

Older adults' perceptions of the risks associated with contemporary gambling environments: Implications for public health policy and practice.

Pitt H, McCarthy S, Thomas SL, Randle M, Marko S, Cowlishaw S, Kairouz S, Daube M

Frontiers in sociology2023

DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1061872 PMID: 37006633

How to Resist Addiction by Design (H2RABD): Cultivating Critical Play for a Gamblified Era

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: French, Martin A.

$386,409

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke: an ongoing dialogue.

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kairouz, Sylvia

Keywords: Awareness; Gambling Harm And Problems; Governance; Indigenous Community; Prevention; Self-Determination; Sharing Circles; Survey

$592,876

Exploring the effects of a rapidly evolving gambling landscape on socio-economic inequality in gambling related harm: Implications for postpandemic recovery

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Special Calls

Principal investigators: Monson, Eva

Keywords: Gambling, online gambling, gambling participation, gambling disorder; COVID-19, postpandemic recovery ; Longitudinal; Public health, population health; Innovative methods, mixed methods, quantitative methods, qualitative methods; Multilevel modeling, thematic content analysis

$249,666

Addiction Detection for a Diverse Canada: Developing socially responsible machine learning models to minimize gambling harms.

SupervisorCIHR2021CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Murch, William S

Keywords: Detection; Discrimination; Gambling Disorder; Machine Learning; Marginalization; Medical Inequality; Online Gambling; Prevention; Public Health; Treatment Disparity

$90,000

Privacy Pedagogies for Digital Play: The Gamification of the Personal Information Economy

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: French, Martin A.

Keywords: data flows; games & quasi-gambling; personal information economy; privacy

$32,518

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Kairouz, Sylvia

Keywords: gambling; Indigenous; problem gambling; electronic gaming machines (EGMS); qualitative; quantitative research; survey

$24,904

E-GAMES Canada : la monétisation des jeux à l'ère des technologies mobiles et du numérique

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kairouz, Sylvia; Savard, Annie-Claude

Keywords: Dépendance; Enquêtes; Expériences Subjectives; Internet; Jeux De Hasard Et D'Argent; Jeux Mobiles; Représentations Sociales; Sociologie Du Temps Et De L'Espace; Technologies Mobiles

$283,051

Un « collaboratoire » sur la dépendance à Internet : Expérimenter, échanger et discuter de l'usage d'Internet à l'ère des nouvelles technologies

Nominated PICIHR2017Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Kairouz, Sylvia

Keywords: (Ispp) Des Irsc

$13,594

Responsible Gaming in the Digital Era

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: French, Martin

Keywords: (1) gambling; (2) gaming; (3) risk; (4) risky consumption; (5) sociology; (6) digital technology; (7) surveillance; (8) big data

$50,685

Big data and risk

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Gagnon, Marilou

Keywords: big data; data analytics; emerging technologies; information and communication technologies; risk

$22,998

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Sylvia Kairouz

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Long‑Term Gambling Disorder Care Trajectories and Associated Patient Characteristics and Quality of Care.

Gambling and the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Quebec (Canada): results from an online cross-sectional survey of people who had gambled within the last 12 months.

Online gambling during the COVID-19 pandemic: do living conditions matter?

Distinguishing Persistent Versus Episodic Clusters of At-Risk Respondents on the Problem Gambling Severity Index.

A portrait of online gambling: a look at a transformation amid a pandemic.

"It would Never have Happened Without the Pandemic": Understanding the Lived Experience of Individuals who Increased Their Online Gambling Participation.

Simulated Gambling: An Explorative Study Based on a Representative Survey.

Using machine learning to retrospectively predict self-reported gambling problems in Quebec.

Online Gambling Practices and Related Problems in Five European Countries: Findings from the Electronic Gam(bl)ing Multinational Empirical Survey (E-GAMES) Project.

Older adults' perceptions of the risks associated with contemporary gambling environments: Implications for public health policy and practice.

How to Resist Addiction by Design (H2RABD): Cultivating Critical Play for a Gamblified Era

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke: an ongoing dialogue.

Exploring the effects of a rapidly evolving gambling landscape on socio-economic inequality in gambling related harm: Implications for postpandemic recovery

Addiction Detection for a Diverse Canada: Developing socially responsible machine learning models to minimize gambling harms.

Privacy Pedagogies for Digital Play: The Gamification of the Personal Information Economy

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke

E-GAMES Canada : la monétisation des jeux à l'ère des technologies mobiles et du numérique

Un « collaboratoire » sur la dépendance à Internet : Expérimenter, échanger et discuter de l'usage d'Internet à l'ère des nouvelles technologies

Responsible Gaming in the Digital Era

Big data and risk

Frequent collaborators

Magaly Brodeur

Alain Lesage

Sylvia Kairouz

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Long&#x2011;Term Gambling Disorder Care Trajectories and Associated Patient Characteristics and Quality of Care.

Gambling and the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Quebec (Canada): results from an online cross-sectional survey of people who had gambled within the last 12 months.

Online gambling during the COVID-19 pandemic: do living conditions matter?

Distinguishing Persistent Versus Episodic Clusters of At-Risk Respondents on the Problem Gambling Severity Index.

A portrait of online gambling: a look at a transformation amid a pandemic.

"It would Never have Happened Without the Pandemic": Understanding the Lived Experience of Individuals who Increased Their Online Gambling Participation.

Simulated Gambling: An Explorative Study Based on a Representative Survey.

Using machine learning to retrospectively predict self-reported gambling problems in Quebec.

Online Gambling Practices and Related Problems in Five European Countries: Findings from the Electronic Gam(bl)ing Multinational Empirical&#xa0;Survey&#xa0;(E-GAMES) Project.

Older adults' perceptions of the risks associated with contemporary gambling environments: Implications for public health policy and practice.

How to Resist Addiction by Design (H2RABD): Cultivating Critical Play for a Gamblified Era

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke: an ongoing dialogue.

Exploring the effects of a rapidly evolving gambling landscape on socio-economic inequality in gambling related harm: Implications for postpandemic recovery

Addiction Detection for a Diverse Canada: Developing socially responsible machine learning models to minimize gambling harms.

Privacy Pedagogies for Digital Play: The Gamification of the Personal Information Economy

ShaP/Ring gambling in the community of Kahnawà:ke

E-GAMES Canada : la monétisation des jeux à l'ère des technologies mobiles et du numérique

Un « collaboratoire » sur la dépendance à Internet : Expérimenter, échanger et discuter de l'usage d'Internet à l'ère des nouvelles technologies

Responsible Gaming in the Digital Era

Big data and risk

Frequent collaborators

Magaly Brodeur

Alain Lesage

Long‑Term Gambling Disorder Care Trajectories and Associated Patient Characteristics and Quality of Care.

Online Gambling Practices and Related Problems in Five European Countries: Findings from the Electronic Gam(bl)ing Multinational Empirical Survey (E-GAMES) Project.