Elin Kelsey, adjunct professor of environmental studies at UVic, is available to media to discuss World Oceans Day and #oceanoptimism, the mass movement to crowd-source ocean conservation solutions
During BC Seniors’ Week, psychologist Stuart MacDonald is available to media to discuss the risks of social isolation on seniors, a demographic being disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scales of Change: A field guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction is a new podcast miniseries exploring the barriers to climate action, produced by Future Ecologies with support from the University of Victoria. The eight-part weekly series, based on the work of UVic environmental psychologist Robert Gifford, launches May 13.
University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss the provincial government's plan to reopen BC during COVID-19.
UVic geographer Jutta Gutberlet, who works with waste-pickers—or binners, as they’re often called— in Victoria and Brazil says the COVID-19 pandemic has hit this population hard. On Earth Day, Gutberlet talks about her efforts to share health information to help keep these workers, who play an important role in diverting waste from landfill, safe.
The COVID-19 crisis has shown that pandemics belong as much to the present as the past. From Ebola to HIV/AIDs to Zika, University of Victoria historian Mitchell Hammond says disease has played an increasingly significant role in global affairs in recent decades. Hammond shares what we can learn from the pandemics of the past.
In order to measure the effectiveness of physical-distancing strategies on COVID-19, we must turn to mathematical and computer simulation models like the ones being developed by University of Victoria statistical mathematician Junling Ma.
The following University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic.
University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss various aspects of the current Wet'suwet'en-Coastal GasLink dispute including protests and blockades, broader issues of Indigenous law and governance structures, environmental review processes, the impact of colonial policies and where the public discussion should go next.
UVic biochemist and microbiologist John Burke is taking a different pathway in his cancer research by exploring at the molecular level how our immune system can help fight and treat the disease, thanks to a $956,250 Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
University of Victoria faculty members are available to media to discuss the provincial budget.
The federal government is failing to meaningfully engage with Indigenous knowledge in environmental decision-making, setting the stage for more conflict over pipelines, two University of Victoria researchers say.
