Ruth Wallace

Professor Ruth Wallace serves as Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University. She leads the Regional, Economic & Workforce Development research team focusing on sustainable workforce solutions in remote Australia and Indonesia, and acts as social science technical advisor for the Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre.

Education includes a PhD from Charles Darwin University (2010) titled 'Learner identities and educational engagement a framework for understanding learner identities of Northern Australian regional learners'.

Research explores workforce development in marginalized communities, digital learning pedagogies, Indigenous enterprise development, and community engagement. Her work emphasizes decolonizing approaches and policy implementation in remote regions.

Publications consistently address Indigenous knowledge systems, educational equity, health disparities, and community-centered methodologies, with recent works focusing on social transformation through accounting practices and decolonization of institutional frameworks.

Awards include the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Agriculture and Life Sciences (2016) and NT Leader/Manager of the Year. Grants and projects include:

• Rainmaker Readiness - Coolamon CRC Application
• Female participation in STEM
• Deadly Start: Preschool Literacy/Numeracy Intervention

She leads the Northern Institute's workforce development research theme and has supervised 22 students.