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.
You'll find more details about my research, teaching and other activities on my personal webpage.
Area of Expertise
Energy-economy-environmental modelling;
Applied regional economic analysis;
Renewable energy technologies and policies.
I am very happy to supervise suitably qualified PhD students in these areas; please get in touch if you want to discuss a potential research project.
Prize And Awards
Publications
- Resilience in a behavioural/Keynesian regional model
- Allan Grant, Figus Gioele, McGregor Peter G, Swales J Kim
- Environment and Planning A Vol 53, pp. 858-876 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X20941775
- Scotland's industrial water use : understanding recent changes and examining the future
- Allan Grant J, McGrane Scott J, Roy Graeme, Baer Thomas M
- Environmental Science and Policy Vol 106, pp. 48-57 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.01.005
- The economic and environmental impacts of UK offshore wind development : the importance of local content
- Allan Grant, Comerford David, Connolly Kevin, McGregor Peter, Ross Andrew G
- Energy Vol 199 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.117436
- Developing an electricity satellite account (ELSA) : an application to Scotland, UK
- Allan Grant J, Connolly Kevin, McIntyre Stuart G
- Economic Systems Research Vol 33, pp. 47-66 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2020.1754166
- The system-wide impact of healthy eating : assessing emissions and economic impacts at the regional level
- Allan Grant, Comerford David, McGregor Peter
- Food Policy Vol 86 (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.05.008
- Resilience by design : how modelling choices shaped tourism’s COVID-19 impact analyses
- Allan Grant J, Figus Gioele
- Economic Systems Research, pp. 1-22 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2026.2642089
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.
Professional Activities
- UKERC workshop on the impact of non-energy policies on the energy system
- Participant
- 2019
- Better Metrics for More Effective Decision-making: The Need for a Regionally based Global Environmental Measurement and Monitoring Network
- Participant
- 15/9/2018
- Global Impact Indicators Workshop
- Participant
- 16/3/2026
- The consequences of urban air quality interventions: what does the academic literature say?
- Speaker
- 19/8/2025
- A global Social Accounting Matrix system for regional hypothetical extraction analysis
- Speaker
- 19/6/2025
- GEMINOA Project - Impact & Insights Workshop
- Participant
- 25/4/2025
Projects
- Climate Change Plan Advise for CXC
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) Andriosopoulos, Dimitris (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
- ICLEI Europe: Glasgow Environmental Monitoring of Indoor and Outdoor Air (GEMINOA)
- 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
- EPSRC and NERC Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Renewable Energy 2 (IDCORE 2) | Dvorak, Ota
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) Dvorak, Ota (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- EPSRC IAA Bridging the Gap
- 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
- The sectoral economic impacts of COVID-19 on the tourism economy: a regional analysis focussed on Scotland
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) Figus, Gioele (Co-investigator) Connolly, Kevin (Researcher) Maurya, Aditya (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- XROTOR (H2020 LC SC3) X-Shaped Radical Offshore Wind Turbine For Overall Cost Of Energy Reduction'
- 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