HND Agriculture

Alex has been at SRUC for over 17 years and worked as both a researcher and teacher. 

When teaching, his main interest is crop-related subjects. However, Alex also makes use of his research background by teaching research skills and supervising a number of honours and MSc projects. 

One of Alex’s favourite roles is coordinating the BSc Honours projects at Aberdeen. The students look at so many different things and he enjoys seeing them develop their interest in a specific topic, as well as finding answers to problems facing the industry. 

Craig is a former student of Agriculture at our Aberdeen campus. He absolutely loved living on the estate and having the farms, woodland, and all the amenities at his fingertips. 

Now based in the Edinburgh Kings Buildings, Craig lectures across our agriculture courses. He’s passionate about interactive, hands-on teaching and loves showing people with little agriculture background where food comes from as well as busting the many myths surrounding agriculture and food production.

John is Programme Team Leader for Agriculture at the SRUC Barony Campus and combines the role with being an SAC Consultant based in Dumfries.

Originally from Tipperary in Ireland, John has been in or around farming all his life. Before joining SRUC, he was a self-employed farmer, worked for NFU Scotland as a regional policy manager and various other farming positions. His areas of expertise and teaching are livestock health and welfare, Livestock production, grassland and forage production and business management.

John holds a TQFE from Dundee University; a BSc Agriculture (Animal Science) from Aberdeen University; a National Certificate Agriculture from Waterford Institute of Technology; and a LANTRA award in instructional techniques.

Gemma is one of the lecturers for Agriculture at the SRUC Barony Campus. Gemma has worked at the Barony Campus since December 2019 and teaches soils, crops and the environment as well as ICT. Gemma teaches NC, HNC and HND Agriculture students.

Before joining SRUC Gemma was a trials officer for Scottish Agronomy Ltd, a company who carry out trials on combinable crops as well as potatoes. This job involved field work (e.g. crop assessments and sampling, spraying), data entry and attending local RHET events to teach school children about crops.

Gemma has a degree in Agricultural Bioscience and is currently part way through a Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary and Higher Education.

After graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Agriculture in 2018 Wallace decided to further his knowledge in global food production with a MSc in Food Security at Glasgow University, which he completed in 2019. Wanting to gain experience in sales and management he took up a role as management trainee at Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

In his free time you will find him working alongside RHET, showing sheep at his local show and working on Rural2Kitchen, his Facebook page that aims to teach the public about food production, sourcing local and introduce you to the people in the sector through his R2Kast podcast.

He believes in integrating practical and theory together to form a ‘big picture’ before focussing in on the theory to really get down to the crux of the matter at hand.