Professor Karen Turner
Director Of The Centre For Energy Policy
Centre for Energy Policy
Personal statement
Karen Turner is Professor and Director of the Centre for Energy Policy at the University of Strathclyde, where she leads a portfolio of work UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), philanthropic organisations such as the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Bellona Foundation and various government and industry bodies. Karen’s main research interests lie in investigating and modelling the economy-wide and macroeconomic consequences of energy policy and industry developments, and considering how these may be effected, and consensus built around policy narratives, to enable the deployment of different decarbonisation solutions. She has published extensively in policy and economics literatures on topics such as making the case for public support of residential energy efficiency programmes and addressing public policy challenges in unlocking value from the deployment of large scale decarbonisation solutions such as electric vehicles and carbon capture and storage. Karen has previously held academic posts at Glasgow and Heriot Watt Universities and is currently a member of the Scottish Government’s Just Transitions Commission
Publications
- Might tidal range schemes change the local economic impact dial on renewable electricity generation?
- Munday Max, Ahmadian Reza, Turner Karen, Formosa Nathan, Roche Neil
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Vol 226 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2025.116200
- Insight Brief : Attracting up to 28 more workers to Shetland could increase economic benefit of Dales Voe ultra-deep-water quay by 50%
- Turner Karen, Katris Antonios, Zanhouo Abdoul Karim, Gonzalez-Martinez Paulina
- (2025)
- Insight Brief : How much worker capacity will be freed up at Sullom Voe Terminal and the Shetland supply chain by the decline in servicing oil and gas activity?
- Turner Karen, Katris Antonios, Zanhouo Abdoul Karim, Gonzalez-Martinez Paulina
- (2025)
- Low carbon fuel production at the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland could ultimately support up to 155 jobs across the island economy
- Turner Karen, Katris Antonios, Zanhouo Abdoul Karim, Gonzalez-Martinez Paulina
- (2025)
- Regional employment implications of deploying CO2 transport and storage to decarbonise the UK’s industry clusters
- Calvillo Christian, Katris Antonios, Race Julia, Corbett Hannah, Turner Karen
- Ecological Economics Vol 233 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108587
- Jobs, skills and regional implications of the low carbon residential heat transition in the UK
- Calvillo Christian F, Katris Antonios, Zhou Long, Turner Karen
- Energy Policy Vol 202 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114579
Professional Activities
- CEP-Scottish Government Onshore Renewable Electricity
- Host
- 4/9/2025
- Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport
- Speaker
- 20/6/2025
- LABOUR MARKET CONSTRAINTS AND WAGE-DRIVEN PRICE PRESSURES AS KEY MOVING PARTS IN THE ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION
- Speaker
- 12/6/2025
- Research/project discussion session between CEP and the National Energy System Operator (NESO) Scotland
- Contributor
- 11/6/2025
- CEP-SSEN Transmission
- Participant
- 14/5/2025
- Scottish Renewables Grid & Networks Conference 2025: Final session: Eyes on the horizon: the future of longer-term reform
- Speaker
- 27/2/2025
Projects
- Understanding the resource and jobs impacts of Speyside Hydrogen
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Corbett, Hannah (Co-investigator) Gonzalez-Martinez, Paulina (Co-investigator) Speirs, Jamie (Co-investigator) Zanhouo, Doungahire Abdoul Karim (Co-investigator)
- 30-Jan-2024 - 03-Jan-2025
- UK Energy Research Centre Phase 5
- Speirs, Jamie (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Co-investigator) Dixon, James (Co-investigator) Hawker, Graeme (Co-investigator) Katris, Antonios (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2028
- Developing a mixed methods approach to support the dual ambition of delivering the low carbon heat transition and eradication of fuel poverty in Scotland
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- Energy Demand Research Centre
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Research Co-investigator) Corbett, Hannah (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2028
- ESRC IAA 2023 / R220785-155
- Turner, Karen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
- Labour market and other wider economy challenges in decarbonising the UK’s industry clusters [LAB-CLUSTER] (IDRIC Wave 2)
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Co-investigator) Katris, Antonios (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Corbett, Hannah (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Karen
Turner
Director Of The Centre For Energy Policy
Centre for Energy Policy
Email: karen.turner@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3198