Our partners

We collaborate with leading academic institutions, research centers, and sector specialists, bridging evidence-based scholarship with executive action to drive genuine, sustainable structural change.

Our partners

Centre for indigenous people and work (CIPW) | University of technology sydney

VNC is proud to partner with the CIPW, a self-determined, First Nations-led research and consulting centre based at UTS. Directed by Professor Nareen Young, CIPW addresses systemic inequities experienced by Indigenous Australians in the labour and employment markets. This partnership ensures that VNC's work is grounded in First Nations governance and expertise from the outset , not as an afterthought.

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People gathered around a table, some writing and others observing, in a room with a banner in the background that reads 'Settlement & Families'.

Charles darwin university

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Decorative banner with a golden floral design on a striped yellow and beige background.

VNC Founding Director Dr Virginia Mapedzahama holds an Adjunct Professorial appointment at Charles Darwin University, maintaining active engagement with the national academic research community.

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A smiling woman wearing glasses, a black headwrap, and a colorful patterned top, sitting next to a serious-looking man in glasses and a suit, in an indoor setting with books on shelves and a plant in the background.

Theoretical architecture

Adjunct Professor Virginia Mapedzahama

Brings the theoretical architecture: nearly three decades of critical race scholarship, a national profile in racial equity practice, evidence systems that have shaped policy and organisational change at scale, and the relationships that come from a career spent at the frontier of this field in Australia.

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A woman with dark skin, glasses, and a big afro hairstyle wearing a white blazer and a bright blue top, smiling against a plain light background.

Statistical infrastructure

Dr Kenneth Chatindiara

Brings the statistical infrastructure: over two decades of validated measurement tools, the composite indices, and the quantitative rigour that transforms qualitative insight into irrefutable, benchmarkable evidence.

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Headshot of a middle-aged Black man with a bald head, wearing black-rimmed glasses, a navy blazer, and a white collared shirt, set against a neutral gray background.

Neither works around

The other’s expertise. Each makes the other’s work more powerful.

The result is a practice

That can do something very unique in the equity consultancy in Australia

we take an organisation

from deep qualitative truth-telling all the way through to validated, longitudinal measurement of structural change.

This is evidence

You can feel. Evidence you can prove

Interested in partnering with us?

We are always open to collaborating with institutions, research bodies, and organisations dedicated to genuine structural change.

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