Meet our faculty & sessional instructors

Dr. David Thomson joined the Communication Department as a sessional lecturer in 1996. He developed a number of online courses at UFV and continues to explore the implications of the Web as a platform for online learning and electronic publishing. In 2007 he moved from downtown Vancouver to the Fraser Valley, a change that brought him a little bit closer to the university and a great deal closer to sanity.

BA (Honours), McGill University

MA, UBC

PhD, UBC

UFV Committees:

• College of Arts Curriculum Committee
• Curriculum Working Group - Communications Program

Teaching interests:

• Document design and digital publishing
• Science writing
• Online teaching and learning
• Privacy implications of social media and online communication

Current projects:

• Educational Design for mobile devices

"Social Media in the Canadian Post-secondary Classroom.” With L. Pardy and S. Pattridge. In The Social Classroom: Integrating Social Network Use in Education. Gorg Mallia, ed. Information Science Reference. IGI Global: Hershey, PA: 245-69. (December 2013).

Co-editor, Selected Papers from ICICTE 2007, spec. iss. Of UFV Research Review: A Special Topics Journal 2.3 (Fall 2009).

"Penelope Lively," Dictionary of Literary Biography: Booker Prize Winners, ed. Merritt Moseley. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 2006. 185-196.

"Martin Amis," Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists Since 1960: Second Series, ed. Merritt Moseley. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1998. 7-18.

"Towards a Hypertextual Dissertation." Text Technology 6:3 (Fall 1996): 27-36.