Paul Allanson

Paul Allanson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Dundee’s School of Business. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from Manchester University and a BSc from Newcastle University. His career includes roles such as Lord Richard Percy Fellow at Newcastle University and a lectureship at Dundee since 1995, with promotion to a personal chair in 2014. His research focuses on applied microeconomics, particularly health inequalities, income redistribution, and social mobility. Key contributions include frameworks for analyzing health disparities, longitudinal methods for evaluating policy impacts, and critiques of healthcare quality variations (the 'postcode lottery').

Education: BSc (Agricultural Economics, Newcastle University), PhD (Agricultural Economics, Manchester University). Research spans agricultural policy’s redistributive effects, South African wage hierarchies, and healthcare equity. He co-founded Scottish Health Economics (SHE) to advance health economics collaboration in Scotland. Teaching includes Economic Policy, Econometrics, and Applied Research Methods.

His work emphasizes policy-relevant outcomes, such as reducing health inequalities through cross-sectoral interventions. Recent studies address pandemic impacts on healthcare access and data policy reforms for social sciences. He serves on panels like the iHEA World Congress Scientific Review and the ESRC Peer Review College.