PhD Candidate, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Francis Markham commenced a PhD studentship at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU in 2013, where his research uses geographic methods to investigate the local impacts of poker machines.
In 2011-12, he was a research associate at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, where he worked on an ARC Linkage project entitled "Gambling-related harm in Northern Australia: A GIS-based spatiotemporal analysis of venue catchments." He holds a Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the ANU.
His academic publications can be viewed at http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=aCEgR-oAAAAJ&hl=en
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