The centre, a UKRI investment funded through the government’s Gambling Levy, will direct world-leading research on how to tackle and prevent gambling harms. Harmful gambling’s burden on the UK economy is conservatively estimated at around £1.4 billion per year. This impacts the healthcare and criminal justice systems as well as generating individual impacts such as depression and suicide. A lack of high‐quality independent evidence on gambling-related harms is a major barrier to effective policy