Media relations

We promote the university's reputation with defined target audiences in identified geographical areas by focusing on key characteristics, accomplishments and points of differentiation in support of the university's strategic objectives, and to ensure the university’s perspective on significant issues and challenges is well understood by those target audiences.

Key functions

• Communications planning and leadership for university initiatives, accomplishments and announcements
• Direction and guidance to and support for decentralized university communications resources
• Media and public relations using print and electronic mediums
• Issue communications
• Media training for faculty, campus leaders and researchers
• Media monitoring and evaluation
• Developing and implementing an institutional research communications strategy
• Planning and producing research-related publications

Contact us

Our office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday. We are located in the C wing of the Sedgewick building (map).

Media Relations & Public Affairs
Email: ucam@uvic.ca
Phone: 250-721-7636
Fax: 250-721-8955
Twitter: @uvicnews

Media tips & releases: uvic.ca/news

If a member of the media urgently needs to contact the department after hours, please call UVic Campus Security Services at 250-721-6683 and the message will be passed on to UVic media relations officials.

Latest news releases

Canadian Astronomical Society conference

Media release

Astronomers and educators from across the country are in Victoria to discuss astronomical research in Canada, including Indigenous knowledge of astronomy.

Plant more trees, says public

Media release

British Columbians favour the restoration of forests ravaged by wildfires and insects as a top climate change mitigation strategy, according to an assessment of public attitudes toward forest carbon mitigation.

Western Canada's largest tech conference

Media release

Been a while since you had your brain waves analyzed? Worried about how you might respond in the crucial period between an earthquake and a potentially deadly tsunami? Strike those concerns off your to-do list next week at the University of Victoria showcase at the BC Tech Summit.

No evidence that pruned vessels replaced

Media release

Scientists have known for years that blood vessel loss in the brain is a factor in cognitive decline as people age. New research at the University of Victoria has provided an explanation for why we lose blood vessels– vital knowledge that could one day lead to preventive and protective strategies for maintaining brain health.