Dr Paul Farrand

National Teaching Fellow 2012 Dr Paul Farrand works within Clinical Education Development and Research (CEDAR), specialising in clinical education and training in evidence-based psychological interventions. Passionate about teaching and learning with a commitment to ensuring the highest standards, Paul seeks to maximise the student experience while guaranteeing the end user of the training - patients seeking treatment for mental health problems - receive the best evidence-based psychological treatments possible. To achieve this he is not only involved in the development and delivery across a range of Clinical Psychology training programmes, but has operated at a national level with the Department of Health education, training and accreditation committees and chairs related committees within the British Psychological Society  (BPS) and British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. Within the University of Exeter, Paul has been central to developments regarding the expansion of the clinical training portfolio. Working closely with colleagues this has resulted in a 'clinical training escalator' offering programmes from degree to doctoral level interspersed with periods of clinical practice. He is committed to developing high quality innovative programmes, combining innovations in pedagogic practice alongside new technologies to maximise resources while improving access to training among practicing health and medical professionals. His most recent development has been the BSc Applied Psychology (Clinical). To enhance employability, this programme combines academic rigour of the study of psychology with the development of clinical competencies integral to the mental health workforce. It is the first of its kind nationally to be dually accredited, leading to Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of the BPS, and for the Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner training component. Paul's commitment to education and teaching runs alongside his research activity where, within the Mood Disorders Centre, he holds research grants funded by leading bodies such as the Medical Research Council. Whilst the research focus is upon developing and evaluating low intensity cognitive behavioural interventions for depression and co-existing medical conditions, even here Paul is committed to ensuring training models to deliver the interventions are themselves evidence-based, guaranteeing the workforce delivering them are adequately equipped.