Wallace lectures in Agriculture at SRUC and has played an integral role in the creation, delivery and refinement of a new model of teaching. Wallace’s programme conducts assessments in a more holistic manner with work placements incorporated into the teaching structure. Owing to this, multiple students have been reemployed by their placement hosts after graduating, ensuring that practical experience learned on the course is properly utilised. Wallace wanted to create an education system that was engaging, enjoyable and fairer for his students, while keeping focus on topics like food production, environmental regeneration and biodiversity.
Wallace has taken an international approach to food production and education methods and is currently travelling the world with his Nuffield scholarship. So far, he has visited Brazil, Holland, Japan, and is soon to visit Singapore and New Zealand. In August, Wallace visited Tanzania and Rwanda to promote SAYFC (Scottish Young Farmers) on an African stage with Tanzania holding the 30th 4H youth group summit focusing on food education, and Rwanda being on a mission to sign a symbiotic knowledge transfer agreement between SAYFC and RYAF (Rwandan Youth Agribusiness Forum). In September, Wallace was in Ukraine on a convoy tour to take a pickup truck and amenities to the front line. Whilst there, he toured some farming and food systems in Lviv. Following his Ukraine trip, Wallace travelled to Indianapolis, Indiana promoting SRUC on the American stage and was fascinated by the FFA (Future Farmers of America) which campaigns for getting food and farming education into schools.
His research has always been tied to his passion for farming and education and learning about different farm practices & methods and how they are used internationally. He seeks to understand the future of the sector, its relation to global food systems, and to improve the standard of farming education globally.
Complementing his research, Wallace acts as chair of national communications and marketing at SAYFC. The team oversees all internal and external communications and marketing to the 3600-strong organisation. Through his work, Wallace was proud to offer 21 Young Farmer members the opportunity to present on Royal Highland Show TV. He himself enjoys presenting and was invited to be the lead presenter in that production.
In his spare time, Wallace hosts a successful food and farming podcast (R2Kast) with global listeners. Every month, Wallace interviews six people in food and farming, two Nuffield scholar alumni and two people with no ties to the sector and has amassed a large following.