Dr Pattanapong Tiwasing is a researcher of rural enterprises at the Rural Policy Centre, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), and an honorary research fellow at the Research Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University, UK. He holds a PhD in agricultural and applied economics from Newcastle University. His research interests focus on the rural digital economy, rural development economics, small business economics, the economics of entrepreneurship, economics of innovation, agricultural economics and big data analysis. He has published several refereed journal articles and book chapters and has presented papers at conferences across the globe. He also served as a grant reviewer for the British Council (Newton Fund) between 2018 and 2020. Since 2018, he has successfully secured funding from both national and international organisations, including the ESRC Productivity Insights Network, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Newton Fund Institutional Links, Thai Government and the Scottish Government.