{"id":6,"date":"2015-01-07T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:31:07","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Seamus Murphy: An Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dr-Seamus-Murphy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" src=\"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dr-Seamus-Murphy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"dr-seamus-murphy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dr-Seamus-Murphy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dr-Seamus-Murphy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dr-Seamus-Murphy-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dr-Seamus-Murphy.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My principle research interests lie in the field of gambling and gambling history.\u00a0 My PhD research has produced a regulatory history of gaming (casino style) clubs in the United Kingdom (focused upon London) in the post-war period.\u00a0 The scope of the study was limited to the United Kingdom but my current research has focused upon a comparative history of the United Kingdom&#8217;s casino industry and the casino industry of the former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although a Historian I am a lecturer in Criminology at the University of Bedfordshire running units on; Understanding the Welfare State and Education, Corporate and Organised Crime, Corporate Crime and Corporate Criminals (Masters) and Foundations in the Social Sciences.\u00a0 I have an article published in Gaming Law and Economics and a number of free-lance articles published within the online gambling press. I have appeared in the BBC social history programme &#8216;Heir Hunters&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My academic interests in gambling was nurtured by 33 years\u2019 experience in the gambling sector including; 28 years of employment in the casino industry in the UK, Eastern Europe and the Bahamas and 5 years of consulting work to the remote gambling industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This blog expresses a wide range of interests and subjects selected by the author. You, the reader(s), are encouraged to comment on any of the posts uploaded to this site by Dr Seamus Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Seamus Murphy: An Introduction &nbsp; My principle research interests lie in the field of gambling and gambling history.\u00a0 My PhD research has produced a regulatory history of gaming (casino style) clubs in the United Kingdom (focused upon London) in the post-war period.\u00a0 The scope of the study was limited to the United Kingdom but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","last-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/92"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drseamusmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}