Allán is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). He is a member of the Scientific Programme Advisory Group for the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.
In 2019, Allán won the Reading University Student Union Award for Diverse and Inclusive Teaching Excellence and in 2020, he was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship. Allán was runner-up in the British Psychology Society and Oxford University Press Higher Education Psychology Teacher of the Year 2020 competition.