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Dr Thomas Allen is an Associate Professor in Economics at 51Âþ»­ Business School. 

He has previously worked at University of Birmingham and University of Leicester and has experience teaching on a broad range of economics courses. His research focuses on political economy and pedagogoy, with a particular interest in the use of AI in education.

Institute for Applied Economics and Social Value

Tawiah, V., Nadarajah, S., Alam, M., & Allen, T. (2023). Do partisan politics influence domestic credit? Journal of Institutional Economics, 19(1), 137-158. doi:10.1017/S1744137422000182

Solomon, O.H., Allen, T. & Wangombe, W. Analysing the factors that influence social media adoption among SMEs in developing countries. J Int Entrep (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-023-00330-9

• Political Economy
• International Trade
• Pedagogy

• Microeconomics
• Economic History
• Maths and Statistics
• International Trade
• Financial Systems
• Political Economy

• PhD Economics (University of Leicester)
• MSc Economics (University of Leicester)
• BA Economics (University of Sheffield)
• PGCertHE (51Âþ»­)

• Contemporary Microeconomics (BBEC1001)
• The History of Business and Economics (BBEC1004)
• Microeconomics: Ethics, Policy and Practice (BBEC2002)

Fellow of Higher Education Academy

European Trade Study Group (ETSG), September 2013, Birmingham, “Analysing the Role of Interactions in the Market for Policy: With an Application to Trade” Thomas Allen.

Fourth Danish International Economics Worskhop, June 2008, Aarhus, “Trade Liberalisation in the Developing World: a Political Economy Approach” Thomas Allen.

Funding for research into the use of social media by firms in developing nations