Virginia is currently working as a Professor in Midwifery at the University of Canberra. For the past six and a half years she worked in a conjoint position as an Associate Professor of Midwifery between Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District and Western Sydney University. She recently worked in NSW across four Local Health Districts on a major research project in an effort to improve student midwives’ experiences. From 2018 to 2022, Virginia led a pilot randomised control trial across six hospitals in NSW on evaluating a peanut ball for women having an epidural during labour. She collaborates with other university academics across Australia and New Zealand as a member of the Trans Tasman Midwifery Education Consortium (TTMEC) and worked as the Chair for the TTMEC from 2021 to 2022 and from 2023 to 2024. She is currently leading a national research project with this consortium that explores characteristics of support within new graduate programmes within Australia and has led another national research project that focused on midwives’ experiences during COVID-19. In collaboration with other researchers, she has published 33 peer-reviewed journal articles over the past five years in areas of complementary therapies, midwifery education, factors affecting birth practices, gender-based violence and women’s health. Virginia is currently supervising two higher degree research students as a primary supervisor and co-supervising three students.