Dr Fay Short

National Teaching Fellow 2013 Alongside her role as lecturer and research supervisor across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of Psychology, Dr Fay Short adopts numerous additional roles and responsibilities. At a departmental level, she is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology. At an institutional level, she is the internationalisation champion for the College of Health and Behavioural Sciences and an honorary counsellor with the Student Counselling Service. Fay is also passionately committed to her own professional development. Alongside her PhD in Psychology, she holds a PGCert for Post-Compulsory Education and a PGCert for Higher Education, has completed TEFL training with a placement teaching in an orphanage in Cambodia, is an accredited learning coach with the Welsh National Assembly, and is currently completing a second Masters in Educational Studies with specific focus on Counselling in Education. Fay firmly adheres to the old adage that learning never stops, and her determination to continually enhance her own development through formal training and reflective practice contributes to her success as a teacher. Fay's teaching philosophy focuses on inspiration and encouragement, and her work seeks to excite students about learning, support those experiencing difficulties, and contribute to the development of effective teaching throughout the sector. This philosophy has developed during her extensive experience of learning in a variety of settings: postgraduate and undergraduate in universities and pre-tertiary levels in schools and colleges. In particular, experiences teaching 14-16 year-old pupils after they had been excluded from school provided her with an insight into the importance of support and inspiration. In recognition of her success, Fay has received the highest accolades available for teaching at Bangor University: the Teacher of the Year Award at the Student Led Teaching Awards in 2012 and an Institutional Teaching Fellowship Award in 2011. She is widely recognised as a teaching expert and regularly in demand by colleagues looking for advice and guidance on effective teaching methods: in the words of one who attended such training: "I am learning so much from you, not just the content, but how to teach, how to inspire, and how to do all of this with a smile."