These University of Victoria experts are available to media for comment on the European Union referendum scheduled to be held on Thursday, June 23 in Britain.

University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss the National Energy Board’s recommendation to conditionally approve the twinning of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.

This election, what are you voting for? The 2015 federal election is in full swing, and few can miss the blitz of campaign signs, ads, tweets, posts, debates and sound bites. On campuses across the country, however, an election presents some distinct challenges—and opportunities.

In an early preview of the challenges world leaders face when negotiating international agreements on climate change (such as this December’s UN meeting in Paris), two UVic students and a business professor got to embark on an opportunity of a lifetime—travelling to Switzerland to attend the Model United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations. This annual international event is hosted by leading business graduate students and professors across Europe and provides the opportunity for scholars studying climate change to engage in mock climate negotiations. These mock negotiations were an opportunity to engage in debate, to strategize towards fulfilling an assigned country’s interests and, as a collective, to negotiate a best-draft resolution to climate challenges facing the global community.

On Nov. 5, UVic grad Rona Ambrose was named as the interim leader of the federal Conservative party. An Alberta Member of Parliament since 2004, she held several cabinet positions within the Conservative government, including Environment, Intergover…

The economy and environment are hot topics for the federal election campaign, but a new voter guide on women's issues prepared by a University of Victoria undergraduate student aims to push other issues to the centre of the spotlight too. Election 2…

The following University of Victoria experts are available to media for comment on the federal election campaign launched this weekend: John Borrows (Faculty of Law) is the Law Foundation Chair in Aboriginal Justice and Governance. He can comment on…

Anthony H. Birch, who was Professor in UVic’s political science department from 1977 until 1989, and Chair from 1981 to 1986, passed away on Dec. 13, 2014 at the age of 90.    Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he published numerous articles and 8 books—all single authored.  His Representative and Responsible Government (1964) and later British System of Government (published in ten editions) remain central texts on UK politics and represent a particular tradition of British political studies, rooted in history and in the main canons of traditional political theory. He was also a student of comparative federalism, nationalism and regional integration.  His books and articles on these subjects have been very relevant to contemporary debates in Britain about Scottish and Welsh devolution. His last book, The Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy, was published in a revised third edition in 2007, when Tony was well into his 80s. 

In May 2014, a group of UVic students and two faculty members spent three weeks in South Africa for UVic’s first-ever Colonial Legacies Field School.

Tess (Taylor) Syrowik is a humanities student in UVic’s Department of Linguistics. This is her personal account of UVic's 2014 Colonial Legacies Field School in South Africa, Apr. 28 - May 21. Learn more about the 2014 Colonial Legacies field school

The following University of Victoria researcher is available to discuss the recent alliance between Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and now-Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz. Andrew Wender (History/Political Science) is a professor of pol…

In light of the worsening violence in Iraq and reports of targeted attacks against women, the following University of Victoria faculty member is available to discuss the contemporary history of women before and after the US invasion of Iraq. Mona Se…

The following University of Victoria faculty member is available to discuss the European parliamentary elections (May 22 – 25), which are taking place during a period of profound political and economic crisis, and will shape EU politics for the next…