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

Water crisis and climate change

The threat to water security is just as urgent as the climate crisis, says Oliver M. Brandes of UVic’s POLIS Water Sustainability Project in a Q&A about hope, funding and the need for action.

Estuaries a tool to fight climate change

Media release

The salt marshes, mud flats and eel grass meadows of temperate river estuaries are more effective at capturing and storing greenhouse gases than young coastal forests and may sequester carbon for centuries, if not millennia, according to researchers from the University of Victoria (UVic).

Mothers, sleep and postpartum anger

Christine Ou (Nursing) is available to media to discuss her recent study about the connection between mothers, sleep and postpartum anger—the subject of [TITLE TO COME + HYPERLINK], published in The Conversation Canada today.

Trust in big tech falls, Trust Index says

Media release

The 2022 Gustavson Brand Trust Index reveals Canadian consumers are more distrusting of dominant technology brands than ever before, even as their use of these companies’ services is on the rise.

UVic recognized as global leader for world impact

Media release

UVic is proud to be recognized in the 2022 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings for our innovative and impactful research, campus operations and partnerships to protect the environment and improve conditions for the planet and people.

World's first Indigenous law class

Media release

Four years ago, the University of Victoria launched the world’s first law degree to combine the study of Indigenous and non-Indigenous laws. This spring, students in the inaugural class of this historic program are preparing to cross the stage to receive their degrees. UVic’s joint program in Canadian common law (Juris Doctor, or JD) and Indigenous legal orders (Juris Indigenarum Doctor, or JID) equips students with the knowledge that allows them to draw from, engage with, and work across multiple legal systems. Students graduate with both professional degrees (JD/JID).

Experts on federal budget green stimulus

Experts are available to media to discuss what the newly released Federal budget means for Canada’s green fiscal-stimulus leadership and low-carbon future, as published in The Conversation Canada.

UVic experts on Canadian budget

UVic experts are available to media for comment on Budget 2022, tabled April 7 by the federal government, with topics including increased defence spending in the context of the war against Ukraine.

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