Kristin Løseth is a Senior Researcher and holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from Aalborg Universitet (2014). She looked into conditions for knowledge development and innovation in businesses that offer nature-based outdoor activities. This provided insights into challenges pertaining to competence building in small enterprises and how these challenges in turn affect the ability to engage in innovation. Through a former research project, Biotour, Kristin has explored collaboration and product development in nature-based tourism further.

Kristin was employed at Vestlandsforsking in 2022. She is an experienced researcher and lecturer within nature-based tourism, entrepreneurship, and innovation at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (2007–2022). At Vestlandsforsking she mainly focuses on tourism research.