Alan Collins

Role

Alan is Professor Emeritus in Economics. He previously served as the Head of Department of Economics, and Professor of Economics and Public Policy.

Alan qualified as an economics teacher in secondary education and after a spell working in that role he went on to undertake postgraduate training in transport engineering and planning. He was then employed by engineering consultants engaged in the economic and environmental assessment of road infrastructure schemes. He then moved on to Strathclyde University to take up a Research Fellowship in the Economics of the Greenhouse Effect (now termed Climate Change). Following his time there he took up a Lectureship in Economics in what is now the University of Portsmouth and progressed to Professor and Head of Department.

He has published extensively in the fields of cultural, environmental and social policy. Currently he is working on a number of projects relating to the trade in endangered species products; the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and firm profitability and the development of ‘smart city’ projects in Europe.

Alan has been a Visiting Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, and also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the South African Cultural Observatory in Port Elizabeth. Previously he served as the President the Association of Cultural Economics International.

Career overview

Alan qualified as an economics teacher in secondary education and after a spell working in that role he went on to undertake postgraduate training in transport engineering and planning. He was then employed by engineering consultants engaged in the economic and environmental assessment of road infrastructure schemes. He then moved on to Strathclyde University to take up a Research Fellowship in the Economics of the Greenhouse Effect (now termed Climate Change). Following his time there he took up a Lectureship in Economics in what is now the University of Portsmouth and progressed to Professor and Head of Department.