Barbara Kinder

Dr Barb Kinder has a PhD from Southern Cross University. She has received her Bachelor's degree in Social Welfare, First Class Honours in Social Science and is currently focusing her research on the political economy of gambling in Australia. Her thesis used Marxian value theory (MVT) as an analytical and empirical framework to answer the important yet overlooked research question of where surplus profits come from, how they arise, and how they are distributed across the global electronic gaming machine (EGM) production network.

On the practice side, Barb is currently employed part-time to educate all gambling stakeholders aiming to reduce gambling harm.