Update your Expertise Finder profile

Expertise Finder is UWaterloo's open-access searchable database intended to help journalists and media outlets find UWaterloo experts. It also serves as an opportunity for you to share your areas of expertise with broader audiences.

Managed by the university's Media Relations team in collaboration with the Arts communication team, an Expertise Finder profile includes your contact information, titles and affiliations, expertise area/s, and a link to your home unit profile webpage. Having a profile in this database means you are open to journalists/outlets requesting your expert commentary (if journalists follow protocol, they will make such requests via Media Relations). Media Relations staff offer guidance and coaching resources for interacting with media.

If you're a new Arts faculty member or do not have an Expertise Finder profile, use this form to share your information, which we'll forward to Media Relations to add to Expertise Finder.

Arts Faculty members already included in Expertise Finder, please use this form to update any aspects of your profile. If you prefer to have your Expertise Finder profile removed, please let us know.

Questions or concerns? Please contact Wendy Philpott.

Add or update your information

Primary affiliation in the Faculty of Arts
Do you want to add, update or remove your profile?
By being part of the Expertise Finder Database, you are willing to be contacted by members of the media. Most journalists are working on tight deadlines and require prompt responses.
What would you like to update?
Please check which information you would like to change. Everything else will stay the same in your profile.
Titles and additional affiliations
Please enter up to four titles. Your first title should be faculty title (i.e. Associate Professor, Professor, Lecturer).

Additional titles could include research chair, director or associate director, chair or associate chair.
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Affiliated & Federated Institution
Please indicate if you are a faculty member of any of the following:
If applicable, please list up to 3 additional affiliations, one per each line.

Please use this format: Faculty, Unit. (e.g. Faculty of Health, School of Public Health Sciences)
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Please list up to 2 research centres you are involved in. if you are involved in more than 2, please choose the two you are most active in.
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Phone number(s)
Primary phone contact
Please note: if you are listing your office phone number, please beware your extension changed if your account moved to Skype for Business.
Alternative phone contact
To protect your privacy, list only phone numbers you are comfortable with being publicly available.
Areas of expertise
Please list your key areas of expertise that you are confident discussing with the media. They will appear in alphabetical order on your profile.

One expertise area per line, up to 20 entries allowed, although we recommend no more than eight.
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Let us know what areas of expertise you would like removed from your profile.
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Most media requests will be for English-speaking publications, but please indicate if you're comfortable speaking French or another language.
Websites
Please enter the profile page from your department or school.
Please enter up to 2 more websites you would like to include, such as your personal website, research group or lab website, etc.

Any websites you include should be reasonably up to date and regularly maintained.
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Thank you for letting us know, Please enter your email address so we can confirm with you that you would like your Expertise Finder profile removed.
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