Dr Pattanapong Tiwasing (Oak or Patt) joins the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland's Rural College as a Researcher in Rural Enterprise. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University, and he holds a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Newcastle University from 2016. He is a bilingual academic, Thai and English, with breadth and depth of skills in data analysis and econometric modelling. 

Prior to this role, Pattanapong was a Research Fellow and Data Analyst at CBiS, and he used to work as a Research Associate in Rural Enterprise at the Centre for Rural Economy (CRE) at Newcastle University. Before landing in the UK, Pattanapong used to work as a lecturer at Chandrakasem Rajabhat University in Bangkok, Thailand, teaching Agricultural Marketing and Agro-Industrial Management. He was also a researcher at the Thai Health Promotion Foundation linked to the Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. 

My research interests lie in:
- Rural Development Economics,
- Small Business Economics,
- Digital Economy in rural areas,
- Online Business Networks,
- Social Media and SME performance,
- Food Security,
- Agricultural and Food Economics,
- Edible Insects and Sustainable Consumption,
- Food and Agricultural Marketing,
- Spatial Disparities in SME Productivity,
- Economics of Innovation,
- Agricultural Household Models,
- Quantitative and Data Analysis.

• Research funding:
  2021-2022: (Co-Investigator) "Export-readiness in the Thai edible insect industry: Devising a roadmap" funded by Newton Fund Institutional Links,
• 2019-2020: (Co-Investigator) "Counter-urbanisation and Entrepreneurial Emergence in Rural Areas" funded by DEFRA,
• 2019: (Co-Investigator) "Spatial disparities in SME productivity in England", Small grant for the analysis of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey funded by Enterprise Research Centre (ERC)/ BEIS,
• 2018: "UK Industrial Strategy: Progressing Rural Contributions" funded by ESRC Productivity Insights Network (PIN),
• 2018: (Principle Investigator) "Spatial disparities in SME productivity for business services" funded by ESRC Productivity Insights Network for Early Career Researchers.