Media relations

We connect our university community with local, regional, and national print and broadcast media to talk about the stories that matter—to people, places and the planet.

Our researchers also provide expert perspective and context on breaking news and current events.

We work to ensure that the university’s views on significant issues and challenges are well understood by everyone.

What we do

• Communications planning and leadership for UVic initiatives, accomplishments and announcements
• Direction, guidance and support for decentralized university communications resources
• Issues communications
• Media training for faculty, campus leaders and researchers
• Media monitoring and evaluation
• Institutional research communications strategy
• 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.

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

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 and advisories

Funding boosts innovative partnerships

Media release

The Digital Technology Supercluster is funding the Fresh Water Data Commons project, involving biochemist Caren Helbing, and the Women's Entrepreneurship Program—a first of its kind for UVic—overseen by Jerome Etwaroo of UVic's Coast Capital Savings Innovation Centre.

Jim Pattison Entrepreneur of the Year

Media release

Business mogul and visionary Jim Pattison, chairman and CEO of The Jim Pattison Group is the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business’ 2020 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year. Pattison’s business acumen, ingenuity and vision are qualities we’re excited to celebrate.

Galaxy cluster found 10 billion years ago

Scientists from Canada, the United States and Denmark have captured the clearest image known of a cluster of galaxies from 10 billion years ago in cosmic history. The discovery, published in Nature, provides clues the universe was more evolved than previously thought.

Victoria-raised student heads to Oxford

Media release

Victoria-raised biochemistry student Rory Hills grew up on the West Coast, surrounded by the smell of pine and ocean spray. This extraordinary environment formed his love for science early in life, driving his steady desire to use science to help solve society's toughest problems including the opioid crisis and climate change.

The forgotten secret beneath our feet

Media release

A UVic hydrologist is one of an international group of scientists and experts who are calling for action to protect global groundwater resources—which makes up 99 per cent of the Earth's liquid freshwater. Tom Gleeson is lead author of a Nature Correspondence article published this week that says we are not doing enough to protect and manage global groundwater resources from contamination, salinization, depletion and neglect.

UVic grads among world’s most employable

Media release

Graduates from UVic are some of the world's most employable according to a prestigious international ranking by Times Higher Education, based on feedback from top international companies.

Cross-linking technology tightly binds

Media release

UVic professor of organic chemistry Jeremy Wulff’s research team led the design of the new class of cross-linking materials in research that appears in the journal Science. Together, UVic and UBC Okanagan researchers discovered a broadly applicable method of bonding plastics and synthetic fibres at the molecular level.

Victoria Hand Project extends reach

Media release

A UVic initiative that provides 3D-printed prosthetic hands to amputees in developing countries, will now extend its reach to help people in underserved and remote communities in Canada and the US. This initiative led by Nick Dechev, professor of mechanical engineering and ED of the Victoria Hand Project, received a $1-million award by the 2019 TD Ready Challenge, announced Dec. 3. Funding will also initiate UVic research trials on 3D-printed spinal braces to treat scoliosis in children.

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