Professor Grant Allan
Economics
Personal statement
Grant Allan is a Professor in the Department of Economics. He joined the University in 2002, initially as a Research Assistant in the Fraser of Allander Institute.
Grant's research interests in applied multisectoral economic analysis and modelling, particularly in the areas of environment, energy and tourism.
He is very willing to supervise suitably qualified PhD students in his fields of interest.
Grant currently teaches classes in economic modelling and energy economics at the postgraduate level, as well as supervising PhD and MSc students in these areas. He also leads modules in energy economics in the DTC in Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures and the Industrial Doctorate Centre in Offshore Renewable Energy.
Between 2016 and 2024, Grant was Director of Postgraduate Teaching in the Department of Economics and course director for three MSc programmes.泭
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Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 30/5/2024
Publications
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- Environment and Planning A Vol 53, pp. 858-876 (2021)
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- Environmental Science and Policy Vol 106, pp. 48-57 (2020)
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- Energy Vol 199 (2020)
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- Economic Systems Research Vol 33, pp. 47-66 (2021)
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- Food Policy Vol 86 (2019)
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- Environmental Research Communications (2026)
Teaching
Grant is currently Director of MSc in Applied Economics and MSc in Economics and Finance, as well as the Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes for the Department of Economics.
He currently teaches classes in Economic Appraisal and Modelling (MSc), Energy Economics (MSc); and on courses in the Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures Centre of Doctoral Training and the Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE).
He supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as PhD students in areas of his research interests.
Research Interests
My main research interests relate to:
- Energy-economy-environmental modelling;
- Applied multisectoral economic analysis.
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Professional Activities
- Participant
- 2019
- Participant
- 15/9/2018
- Participant
- 16/3/2026
- Speaker
- 19/8/2025
- Speaker
- 19/6/2025
- Participant
- 25/4/2025
Projects
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) Andriosopoulos, Dimitris (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
- Michie, Craig (Principal Investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator) Williamson, Jack (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2025
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) Dvorak, Ota (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Owens, Steven Robert (Principal Investigator) McGrane, Scott (Co-investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) Macdonald, Malcolm (Co-investigator)
- EPSRC Impact Accelerator Account funded Bridging the Gap project, awarded jointly with Dr Steven Owens, Professor Malcolm MacDonald and Dr Grant Allan to investigate connecting environmental remote observation data with socioeconomic data to inventory opportunities for project creation and data access options
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2023
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) Figus, Gioele (Co-investigator) Connolly, Kevin (Researcher) Maurya, Aditya (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Leithead, Bill (Principal Investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (Co-investigator) Carroll, James (Co-investigator) Jamieson, Peter (Co-investigator) Stock, Adam (Co-investigator) Williamson, Jack (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023