1. The University of Greenwich
Southern Utah University Visit
15 May 2014

2. Welcome to London!
A Student City
• 40 Higher Education institutions
• Around 390,000 students
• A Cosmopolitan City

3. • 10.00am – 10.15am - Refreshments Queen Mary 068
• 10.15am – University of Greenwich Introduction
and British Identity and culture
(Aisling Conboy, Study Abroad Coordinator)
• 11.00am – 11.50am - Campus Tour
(Student Ambassador Michael Browne, International
Business student at Greenwich from the USA)
• 11.50am – 12.00pm - Return to Queen Mary 068 for
Recap and Farewell – best photo prize!
Today’s schedule

4. Aisling Conboy, Study Abroad and Exchange
Coordinator (3 years at Greenwich!)
• Born in Donegal, Ireland
• Studied Politics & History
• Lived in US for 2 years (Penn State and Central Michigan
University)
• Enjoy concerts, vintage fashion and galleries in London
• Identity? Irish
Who am I?

5. About the University of Greenwich
• 23,757 students in the UK
• 14,200 students studying wholly
overseas
• Vice Chancellor David Maguire
(President)
• The university has three campuses:
Avery Hill, Greenwich and Medway
• Greenwich - largest campus is centred
on three baroque buildings designed by
Sir Christopher Wren at the end of the
17th century (formerly a naval college)

7. Study at Greenwich
• Students from over 140 countries
worldwide
• Students Union - Over 50 clubs and
societies including American Football
• Masters degrees in UK are 1 year
(undergraduate 3 years) - tuition fees
approx. $19,000, all new students
guaranteed university accommodation
• Faculties of Business, Architecture,
Computing & Humanities, Education
& Health, Engineering & Science

9. Brief History of Greenwich
• Set on the banks of the River Thames just four miles
downstream from Tower Bridge Greenwich is particularly
noted for its magnificent architecture, beautiful parkland and
a lively town centre.
• Since its earliest days, the town of Greenwich has changed
and evolved to meet the changing needs of its people.
• Since the Romans settled here, it has been shaped by
seafaring, industry, the arrival of the railway and higher
education, as well as by Royalty and the Navy.
• The Royal Observatory, home of Greenwich Mean Time
and the Prime Meridian line, is one of the most important
historic scientific sites in the world.

11. • Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site
• World Heritage Site status was awarded to 'Maritime
Greenwich’ by UNESCO in 1997
UNESCO World Heritage Site

12. • The design of the US White House is based on the
Palladian style of the Queen’s House in Greenwich,
which now exhibits a selection of the National Maritime
Museum’s vast art collection

13. The Queen’s House

14. • The Trafalgar Tavern on the
waterside, one of the most
historic pubs in the area, was
once frequented by
Thackeray, Dickens and
friends who all enjoyed the
tavern’s most famous dish –
whitebait caught straight from
the Thames!

15. Charles Dickens
• Charles Dickens b. 1812. Dickens had a
great love for Greenwich. This is revealed
particularly in essays such as Greenwich
Fair (Sketches by Boz, Vol.1, 1836). His
late-in-life novel Our Mutual Friend (1864)
has Bella Wilfer marrying John Rokesmith
in St Alfege's Church and the wedding
breakfast being held, apparently, in the
Trafalgar Tavern. (Source)
• This was the very same inn, indeed, to
which his many friends invited Dickens for a
whitebait dinner before his departure to the
States on his last reading tour in 1867.

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British traditions at Greenwich

17. Daniel Defoe is an
English novelist
known as the author
of Robinson Crusoe
New Greenwich
student
accommodation
‘Daniel Defoe House’

18. Is This The Most Popular Filming
Location In The World?
• Empire Magazine - Greenwich ‘taking over Hollywood’
• The Dark Knight Rises, Les Misérables, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On
Stranger Tides, Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, Gulliver's
Travels, The Wolfman, The Golden Compass, Skyfall
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Sense And Sensibility, Shanghai Knights,
The Young Victoria, Dorian Gray, Revolver, The Mummy Returns,
Vanity Fair, Quills, Amazing Grace, The Four Feathers, Charlotte
Gray, The Bounty, The Oxford Murders, Stage Beauty, The Madness
Of King George, Garfield 2, The Wings Of The Dove, King Ralph,
Anne Of The Thousand Days and more, all the way back to Stanley
Donen's Indiscreet in 1958, with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.

19. • Daniel Day Lewis (here in Lincoln) was born
in Greenwich

20. • Les Miserables

21. • Four Weddings and a Funeral – second
wedding

24. The London Marathon

27. Map of ‘Britain’
• Terminology can be
confusing, different
meanings
• Great Britain
• Britain
• The United Kingdom
• The British Isles
• The Commonwealth
• England, Scotland, Wales,
Northern Ireland

29. ‘In recent times the British
state’s thinking has been
federal, multicultural, and
free market – a soft
Thatcherite mix which,
according to the last five prime
ministers at least, was more
befitting the minimum
process known as ‘Europe’
and the maximum process
known as globalisation. Our
current predicament is that
none of this thinking has been
sympathetic to the principle
and the practice of British
national identity.’
Source – History Today
British National Identity

30. British Literature – traditional or
modern?
• Literature is Great - Part 1- British Council
• Literature is Great – Part 2 – British Council

31. Modern British Identity?
UK Muslims feel
'more British' than
whites
Research study
says UK citizens of
Pakistani and
Bangladeshi
heritage rate "being
British" as key to
their identity.
Source – Al Jazeera

32. London 2012 Olympics –
celebrating British identity

33. Interesting recent features on British
Identity and ‘Britishness’
• Scrambling for Identity in Britain – NY Times Article
• Britain and Europe- An Identity Crisis – Channel 4 News
• Scotland and devolution from the UK - Reuters
• British and English Poll – BBC News
• David Beckham and Prince George give our luxury
brands a helping hand: 'Britishness' cited as a reason to
buy by global shoppers – Daily Mail
• As inclusive Britain becomes more multi-ethnic, what will
happen to 'Englishness'? – The Telegraph

34. Aisling Conboy
Study Abroad and Exchange Coordinator
E-mail: a.conboy@gre.ac.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/studyabroadlondon
Instagram: #studyabroadgreenwich
Twitter: @GreenwichAbroad
Contact

35. Thank You!