1. Great Britain What it’s like to live and work in Britain Dr Trevor Price Head of Technology Enhanced Learning

2. Overview of my talk Who I am Where I live Where I work Hot topics Questions

3. Who I am I’m English, British and European! Senior Lecturer & Head of Technology Enhanced Learning team CELT website Me! My wife: Hu Ching-yu (from Chong-li) Elisha, our niece

4. Where I live I live in Cardiff, WalesCardiff Mixed population: white (of which English 83.6%, Scottish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern Irish 2.9%) 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other 1.6%

5. Where I work University split over 4 campuses 20,000 students; 800 staff 8 Faculties I teach Environmental Engineering (half time) + research I manage the TEL team (half time) University of Glamorgan - video tour Campus virtual tour

6. Hot topics Election –Plaid Cymru –Christian Party –Independent –Communist Party of Britain –Liberal Democrat –Conservative –Labour –Green –UK Independence Party

7. Hot topics Olympics 2012

8. Hot topics Volcanic ash

9. Useful sources of info. CIA Factbook about UKCIA Factbook Wikipedia on the UK University of Glamorgan (in Chinese!)University of GlamorganChinese! BBC Election 2010 London 2012 BBC Volanic ash