Personal statement
Grant Allan is a Reader in the Department of Economics. 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.
He is Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes for the Department of Economics and Director of MSc in Applied Economics, MSc in Applied Economics by distance learning and MSc in Economics and Finance.
Grant currently teaches classes in economic modelling and energy economics at PGT 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.
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 regional economic analysis
Renewable energy technologies and policies
Multisectoral economic accounting and modelling
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
- What use is multisectoral analysis of emissions at city level? Some insights for Glasgow City Region
- Invited speaker
- 27/5/2021
- 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
More professional activities
Projects
- 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)
- 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)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
- Jobs supported by Exports - Dept of Int Trade
- Roy, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Spowage, Mairi (Principal Investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) Black, James (Co-investigator) Cooper, Benjamin (Co-investigator) Findlay, Patricia (Co-investigator) McGeoch, Adam (Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2020
- 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
- ClimateXChange (2016/17)
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) McGregor, Peter (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator) Figus, Gioele (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2017
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