The Equity Research Centre is committed to the Australian concept of a fair go for everyone and to a society in which everyone can properly access the best possible education, training or employment opportunities. The Centre works to promote understanding and development of best equity practice in employment, education and training.

Since 1987, the Centre has operated as an independent, not-for-profit organisation of leading academics, community workers, educators and researchers. As a specialist industry training body it advises the Victorian Skills Commission on equity matters in industry training. As a member of the National Quality Council Equity Quality Assurance Panel, it advises Industry Skills Councils on Training Package development.

Equity Research Centre services clients from the government, commercial and not-for-profit sectors across four primary platforms:

Investigate Specialist, experienced researchers explore the issues that disable and disadvantage people in education or the workplace.

Identify Using this research, together with access to the best global information and our accumulated body of knowledge, the Equity Research Centre helps define potential issues that may disadvantage various segments of the community.

Inform Advising industry and education sectors of pertinent issues and advocating appropriate solutions.

Implement Working with clients to bring about appropriate change or to cement existing best practice, using presentations, workshops and drafting local policy.

Research The ERC provides competitive, cost effective research and project solutions to the public and private sector.

Resources Access to research and outcomes from local and international networks.

Reporting Preparation of documents from primary or accumulated research.
Workshop development and presentation.
Policy Development.
Audit of existing policy and practice.
Publication of the Fair Go Newsletter.