Dean M Thomson is currently a lecturer with Beijing Normal - Hong Kong Baptist University, United International College (UIC). He was formerly a lecturer in ‘Anglo-American Society and Culture’ with Shandong Agricultural University (SDAU) in Tai’an, Shandong China. He also previously taught ‘English for Academic Purposes’ (EAP) and modules in critical thinking in Wuhan and Xian Ning, Hubei, China.
He has been a columnist for Think Scotland, which is a not-for-profit forum, think-tank and debating platform. It publishes various authors, exploring a cross-section of topical, political and cultural writing affecting contemporary Scotland.
Writing on politics, society and culture, his regular topics focus on: Scotland, Israel, China, nationalism, antisemitism, identity, socio-economic inequalities and political corruption.
He has written a series of articles investigating allegations against the Scottish National Party (SNP) concerning an allegedly missing ring fenced independence referendum fund. Allegations which Police Scotland are also now investigating the governing SNP concerning.
His columns for Think Scotland can all be found here.
He was a contributing author to ‘The SNP Record: good or bad? A review of the impacts and outcomes of SNP Government policies’, which was published in April 2021. The report was a four month and 69 page effort by the contributors, which drew primarily on official Scottish Government data to provide a comprehensive review its record in office. Its digital version is available here.
In his spare time (when not teaching or writing articles) he is working on a fiction novel which seeks to explore the social and political underpinnings of silence and denial in our everyday lives. He is also writing a non-fiction book exploring neoconservatism, and how it wrecked Syria - an examination of US ideological foreign policy mistakes.
Dean lived in China from 2014-2019, returning to live in his home city of Glasgow, Scotland before returning to China in 2024. He retains a passionate love of the Chinese people, culture, poetry and expresses them via his Chinese style home décor and cooking recipes.
You can find him on twitter via @DeanMThomson, and on Threads.
Episodes of his podcasts, discussion show and quickfire series can all be found on iTunes here and also on his YouTube channel
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