Sokratis Dinos

Sokratis is Director of Health Policy at NatCen. He is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has been responsible for the design and management of research projects, including national surveys, qualitative studies and systematic reviews and evaluations in the field of gambling harm, health risk profiles and epidemiology. 

He has managed the design of national evaluation projects related to the effectiveness of mental health, social services, and policy initiatives in the UK. This includes an evaluation of the Credit Card Ban for Gambling in Great Britain and evaluation of the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise Covid-19 Emergency Funding Package on behalf of DCMS. 

Sokratis also led a project to improve understanding of how patterns of online play relate to the potential for gambling harm. This involved the collection of account-based data from several gambling operators. He led the chapter on mental health inequalities in the DHSC’s White Paper and has also reviewed large grants for ESRC and NIHR as well as academic publications for several journals.