Media: expert advisories

Based on new research led by UVic psychology Nigel Mantou Lou, it’s clear the COVID-19 pandemic poses specific threats to Asian Canadians facing increased racism.

Art has the power to both inspire and be a powerful catalyst for change, says inaugural Impact Chair in Indigenous Art Practices Carey Newman of UVic’s Faculty of Fine Arts.

UVic expands its breadth of expertise by actively recruiting new research chairs in the impact area of climate, environmental change and sustainability.

Saul Klein (Business) is an expert in marketing and brand trust. During the holiday shopping season, he can comment on sustainability and the role it plays in brand trust for consumers.

Takahiro Endo, the new Jarislowsky Japan Chair at UVic’s Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives and Gustavson School of Business, delves into challenges and opportunities of mobilizing green finance.

Renowned Indigenous jurist and alumna Marion Buller is named UVic's next chancellor. The appointment reflects and advances UVic’s commitment to being open to learning and doing things in a new way to advance truth and reconciliation.

Adel Guitouni is available to media to discuss how COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of conventional global supply chains, and the role businesses and governments can play in transforming them.

In advance of the UN Climate Change Conference—COP26—in Glasgow, UVic experts are available to media to speak on topics related to on climate science, impacts, modelling, Indigenous perspectives, policy and action.

Wildfires, droughts, floods, extreme storms: we are living in a time when climate change should be the biggest story of our time. Yet, as the recent federal election proved, all too often it doesn’t even make the headlines. As the new Wayne Cr…

​Impact investing has huge potential to help individuals, institutions and start-ups take action against climate change. Basma Majerbi explains how it can help take us to net zero.

UVic experts on issues related to the federal election.

Restoration ecologists from around the world examined the success of seeding drylands with key native plant species. The study was published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution.