Barbara Chambers

Dr. Barbara Chambers is a Lecturer in the Department of Banking and Finance, focusing on superannuation, empirical corporate finance, and asset pricing. Her work explores pension systems, retirement income product design, and financial literacy impacts on retiree decision-making. She collaborates with institutions like CEPAR and Macquarie University.

Early Career: Previously worked as a management scientist for the UK Metropolitan Police and a pensions valuation analyst for an insurance company.

Research Highlights: Current projects include investigating retiree financial needs (accepted by Accounting and Finance), retirement product design preferences via discrete choice experiments, and financial literacy effects on product choices.

Grants & Teams: Collaborates with Dr. Jun Feng (CEPAR) and Dr. Yuanyuan Gu (Macquarie University) on retirement-related research. No awards explicitly mentioned.