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

ONC Wiring the Abyss neutrino project

Media release

ONC is installing specialized instrumentation at Cascadia Basin, 2,700 metres below sea level in the northeast Pacific Ocean, during Expedition 2018: Wiring the Abyss to assess the location’s suitability for observing one of the universe’s most essential and difficult-to-study ingredients—neutrinos.

Co-op hits 85,000 placements

Media release

As an Indigenous student, Kevin Perkins wanted related work experience that aligned with his heritage and career goals and to give back to the community. He found that blend of academics and paid, culturally relevant work through the world’s only dedicated Indigenous co-op program.

Mitochondria function tied to depression

Media release

Scientists have long known that an imbalance in brain chemistry can lead to depression. University of Victoria researchers have taken this knowledge a step further, examining what happens inside the brain's cells in order to better understand how depression occurs.

Expert on EU political crisis

Political scientist Oliver Schmidtke, director of UVic's Centre for Global Studies, is available to media to discuss implications of the ongoing immigration backlash in Europe in the context of the latest EU summit and possible political repercussions for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition government.