Portsmouth Business School

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Alan Collins BSc (Bradford) MSc (Salford) PGCE (Hull) Chartered Member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport

Alan is Professor of Economics and Head of the Economics and Finance Subject Group. He teaches a wide range of subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, his teaching interests including Environmental Economics and Policy, Managerial Economics, Social Economics, Transport Economics, and Cultural Economics.

Alan is an active researcher in a number of fields, the most significant of which are environmental and natural resource economics, transport economics, and social and cultural economics. He is also on the executive board of the Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI). More information is available at: www.culturaleconomics.org

Alan has published in a wide range of academic journals including:

Urban Studies, European Journal of Law and Economics, Land Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics, Journal of Bioeconomics, Applied Economics, International Journal of Transport Economics, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Kyklos,  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Environment & Planning A and C, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Creativity Research Journal, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology.

He is also the co-author (with Sam Cameron) of: Playing the Love Market: Dating, Romance and the Real World (2000) and editor of Cities of Pleasure: Sex and the Urban Socialscape (2006), published by Routledge.

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