Boyce earned a PhD from the University of Tasmania in Geography and Environmental Studies.
[2] Following his writing of Losing Streak, Boyce became closely related to efforts to control the poker machine industry in Tasmania and in Australia.
[citation needed] He has been called before parliamentary committees to give evidence about the harms of the industry as well as the history,[3][4] as well as working with members of parliament with similar goals.
[5] He has also written extensively in the Australian press on the topic, specifically about the deals that allowed Federal Group to gain a monopoly on Tasmania's two casinos and all the state's poker machines.
[6][7][8] He continued the fight against the Farrel family and their intervention into Tasmanian politics to ensure the continuation of their monopolies,[9] and he was particularly scathing about their conduct during the 2018 Tasmanian state election, where Boyce claimed that "we are watching an election being bought before our eyes" due to the massive advertising blitz that the gambling industry poured into the campaign after the Labor Party promised to phase out all poker machines.