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Biography
I am a Professor of Economics in the School of Business. I am a graduate of Newcastle University (BSc Agric Econ) with a PhD from Manchester University. Formerly Lord Richard Percy Fellow in the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle, I moved to Dundee in 1995.
I am a founding member of Scottish Health Economics (SHE), which is a collaboration of health economists from Scotland’s Universities, NHS and Government and aims to support, promote and further develop health economics in Scotland by bringing together researchers and users of health economics to explore the development and application of health economics in Scotland.
I have served on the Scientific Review Panel for successive iHEA World Congresses, and I am also a member of the Health Economic Study Group and Royal Economic Society.
Research
My major research interests lie in the area of applied microeconomics with a particular focus on the empirical analysis of welfare and inequality issues in a number of distinct fields of economic inquiry. A common theme linking much of my work is the development and application of modelling frameworks to enhance understanding of the distributional implications of economic policies and societal change.
An agricultural economist by training, I have an established profile within this field for my work on the economic welfare of the farming community and the redistributive impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy. More broadly, since moving to Dundee, I have also published on the evolution of the racial wage hierarchy in the South African labour market; imperfect competition among multiproduct firms; and the characterisation and measurement of income mobility as a process of distributional transformation.
However, the main focus of my research over the past 15 years has been on the relationship between health outcomes and sociodemographic characteristics including age, sex, educational attainment and socioeconomic status. The importance of this topic stems from the increasing recognition among policy makers that reductions in health inequalities will not be achieved through health policies and health care systems alone but will require action across the whole range of public policies that impact on the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Much of my work in this field seeks to develop longitudinal or follow-up methods to determine whether health inequalities primarily arise from chronic or transient patterns of social disadvantage, to monitor and explain changes in health inequalities over time, and to evaluate interventions designed to tackle health inequalities. A second major contribution has been the establishment of a framework for the comparative analysis of ordinal health and wellbeing outcomes both between population subgroups and over time, with recent papers on the determinants of the North-South health divide in England and the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the subjective wellbeing of age-by-sex subgroups of the UK population.
The framework has also been used in related work for the comparative evaluation of the performance of healthcare organisations, providing novel measures of the scale of the postcode lottery faced by patients as a result of the geographical variation in the quality of healthcare services. Elimination of this postcode lottery would provide a measurable, policy-relevant objective to the extent that discrimination between patients on the basis of where they live is due to factors within the control of the national health service.
Teaching
- Economic Policy
- Econometrics
- Economics of an Unequal World
- Applied Research Methods
- Health Inequalities
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Social Science, Modelling UK Agricultural Production: A Complete Systems Approach, University of Manchester
Award Date: 1 Jan 1987
Bachelor of Science, Agricultural Economics, Newcastle University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1983
External positions
Chair, SGPE Executive Committee, Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics
1 Sept 2021 → 30 Aug 2024
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Aref#d: 21768. The Design of the Single Payment Scheme
Allanson, P. (Investigator) & Morelli, C. (Investigator)
Project: Research
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ESRC/SE Government Collaborative Transition DTG (Kalina Kasprzyk)
Allanson, P. (Investigator) & Morelli, C. (Investigator)
Project: Research
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Doing ESRC Data Better
Allanson, P. (Investigator), Daly, A. (Investigator), Geddes, A. (Investigator), Malone, M. (Investigator) & Nic Daeid, N. (Investigator)
1/09/23 → 31/05/24
Project: Research
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma Prevention in Organ Transplant Recipients Using Topical Treatments (SPOT): A Feasibility Study (joint with Barts Health NHS Trust)
Allanson, P. (Investigator), Jones, M. (Investigator) & Proby, C. (Investigator)
1/11/14 → 31/07/19
Project: Research
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ESRC Research Data Policy in a Changing Landscape
Allanson, P. (Lead / Corresponding author), Daly, A., Elahi, A., Geddes, A., Roche, M., Nic Daeid, N. & Tetley-Brown, L., 28 Jan 2025, In: International Journal of Digital Curation. 19, 1, p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Doing ESRC Data Better: A study for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Allanson, P., Daly, A., Elahi, A., Geddes, A., Malone, M., Nic Daeid, N. & Tetley-Brown, L., 14 May 2024, University of Dundee. 37 p. (Science, Policy and Law Series; no. 2)Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Research data as an open public good – refreshing UKRI ESRC’s research data policy
Allanson, P., Daly, A., Elahi, A., Geddes, A., Roche, M., Nic Daeid, N. & Tetley-Brown, L., 25 Jan 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Comparing healthcare quality: A common framework for both ordinal and cardinal data with an application to primary care variation in England
Allanson, P. (Lead / Corresponding author) & Cookson, R., Dec 2022, In: Health Economics. 31, 12, p. 2593-2608 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 304: Patients’ experience of their GP practice in the COVID-19 pandemic
Allanson, P. (Lead / Corresponding author) & Logan, P., Mar 2022, University of Dundee, 35 p. (Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics; no. 304).Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Discussion paper
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Doing ESRC Data Better: Survey Data, 2023
Allanson, P. (Creator), Daly, A. (Creator), Elahi, A. (Creator), Geddes, A. (Creator), Malone, M. (Creator), Nic Daeid, N. (Creator) & Tetley-Brown, L. (Creator), UK Data Service, 14 Apr 2025
https://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-857325
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Doing ESRC Data Better: Appendices
Allanson, P. (Creator), Daly, A. (Creator), Elahi, A. (Creator), Geddes, A. (Creator), Malone, M. (Creator), Nic Daeid, N. (Creator) & Tetley-Brown, L. (Creator), University of Dundee, 16 May 2024
DOI: 10.15132/10000253
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Activities
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Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics conference 2025
Allanson, P. (Participant)
9 Jan 2025 → 10 Jan 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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18th International Digital Curation Conference
Allanson, P. (Presenter)
19 Feb 2024 → 21 Feb 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Expert review of NIHR Public Health Programme grant application
Allanson, P. (Reviewer)
May 2024Activity: Other activity types › Other
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ESRC research data policy in changing landscapes
Allanson, P. (Speaker), Daly, A. (Speaker), Elahi, A. (Speaker), Geddes, A. (Speaker), Malone, M. (Speaker), Nic Daeid, N. (Speaker) & Tetley-Brown, L. (Speaker)
21 Feb 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics Conference 2024
Allanson, P. (Chair)
11 Jan 2024 → 12 Jan 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press/Media
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Doing social science data better – How can the ESRC improve its research data policy?
Allanson, P., Daly, A., Geddes, A., Malone, M., Nic Daeid, N. & Tetley-Brown, L.
14/05/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research