Research-inspired learning
Your UVic advantage
UVic is consistently ranked in the top tier of Canada's comprehensive universities. We see learning as an active experience and encourage you to participate in the creation of knowledge as you learn.
Your education at a research university will help you develop the intellectual skills that underlie discovery, creativity and innovation – skills that will serve you well in the modern world no matter what path you choose.
Whether it’s through your formal coursework, in a work-study or co-op experience, or as a student volunteer, you’ll discover many ways to participate in research. Along the way, you’ll have access to state-of-the-art libraries, laboratories, fine arts studios and computing centres to help you develop your own research interests and collaborate with others.
Explore our research-inspired learning publication to learn how our students and faculty members are engaged in research and experience-based learning. Their enthusiasm is contagious!
Learn more about student research opportunities.
A curriculum of research
Thanks to UVic anthropology graduate student Libby Siebold, the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development has an evaluation framework to help community workers measure and improve their practices.
She developed the framework as a course assignment in an innovative interdisciplinary program that matches external partner agencies with graduate students looking for applied research experience. Read more about the interdisciplinary research practicum.
Read about how students are getting involved in research
Patient records are going digital, and researchers in UVic’s School of Health and Information Science are helping to ease the transition.
A team led by Drs. Andre Kushniruk and Elizabeth Borycki is educating new doctors and nurses about the new technology and pre-testing the different systems available.
Electronic health records will give doctors easier access to health information and improve patient safety.
Read about Dr. Kushniruk's research and community research being done in the Faculty of Human and Social Development.
In 2002, UVic historian Dr. John Lutz re-invented one of his courses to turn students into history sleuths. He created the website "Victoria's Victoria" to showcase the research of student-historians on the history of Victoria.
He says, "I want students to do historical detective work, rather than tell them what other people have found". Lutz is also co-developer of the popular "Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History" website.
Read more about the Victoria's Victoria project.
Dr. Warwick Dobson, UVic’s University Scholar in Applied Theatre, is helping theatre students broaden their audiences and their sense of what theatre can do for the community at large.
Working with community organizations, they've cast the spotlight on a wide range of issues like health care delivery, assisting children with mental health issues, the skills and independence of aging drivers, and street-involved youth.
Learn more about our theatre researchers.