Rita Moseng Sivertsvik is a political scientist and lecturer, and received her Master’s degree at NTNU in Trondheim. Rita has worked as a project administrative advisor and researcher at Ruralis since 2016, and has been involved in several different research projects. She has worked on topics related to local community and regional development, tourism – both as part of local community development and the nature-based business with focus on actors, and has been involved in projects related to management and politics, bioeconomics and demonstration activities in agriculture. Rita uses both qualitative and quantitative methods in her work.