Personal statement
Grant Allan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Deputy Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute. Prior to 2013, he was a Research Assistant and Research Fellow in the Fraser of Allander Institute.
Grant has research interests in applied regional economic analysis and modelling, particularly in the areas of energy and tourism.
He is very willing to supervise suitably qualified PhD students in his fields of interest.
Grant currently teaches Macroeconomics (3rd year); Energy Economics (MSc); Socioeconomics of Energy (DTC in Wind and Marine Energy Systems); and Socio-economic and policy of offshore renewables (Industrial Doctorate Centre in Offshore Renewable Energy).
He is Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes for the Department of Economics and Director of MSc in Applied Economics and MSc in Economics and Finance.
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: Macroeconomics (3rd year); Natural Resources and Environmental and Energy Economics (Honours); Energy Economics (MSc); and on courses in the Wind and MarineEnergy Systems Centre of Doctoral Training and the Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE).
Research interests
My main research interests relate to:
Energy-economy-environmental modelling
Applied regional economic analysis
Renewable energy technologies and policies
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
- The use of economic and energy system modelling for energy policy analysis
- Chair
- 22/5/2018
- UKERC workshop on the impact of non-energy policies on the energy system
- Participant
- 13/11/2017
- Economic impacts of local energy
- Speaker
- 22/9/2016
- Annual Conference of the Regional Studies Association 2016
- Speaker
- 5/4/2016
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Projects
- The impact of non-energy policies on the energy system
- Roy, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) Lisenkova, Katerina (Co-investigator) McGregor, Peter (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator) Ross, Andrew (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2018
- ClimateXChange 2017/19 PDRF Economics
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) McGregor, Peter (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator) Figus, Gioele (Researcher)
- 10-Jan-2017 - 09-Jan-2019
- Linking agriculture and eco-system models with CGEs
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) McGregor, Peter (Co-investigator) Comerford, David (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2019
- ClimateXChange (2016/17)
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) McGregor, Peter (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator) Figus, Gioele (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2017
- NINES Knowledge and Learning
- Kockar, Ivana (Principal Investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (Co-investigator) Clarke, Joseph Andrew (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2016
- Energy Saving Innovations and Economy-Wide Rebound Effects
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) McGregor, Peter (Co-investigator) Swales, John (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 28-Jan-2017
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