Personal statement
Karen is Director of the Centre for Energy Policy at the University of Strathclyde International Public Policy Institute. She has previously held academic posts at in the Economics Departments at Heriot-Watt, Stirling and Strathclyde Universities. Karen was one of six ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellows (http://www.researchcatalogue.esrc.ac.uk/grants/RES-066-27-0029/read) and her main research interests in modeling the economy-wide impacts of energy and climate policy. The main focus of her current work is investigating economy-wide rebound effects and macroeconmic impacts of energy efficiency enhancing and/or carbon reduction technologies such as CCS. Karen is Principle Investigator on the EPSRC ‘Working with the [EUED] Centres project titled ‘Energy Saving Innovations and Economy-wide Rebound Effects’ (See project web-site hosted by our partners the the Centre for Innovation and Energy Demand at the University of Sussex http://cied.ac.uk/research/impacts/energysavinginnovations).
Professional activities
- Centre for Energy Policy Energy Conversations: Do we have the necessary skilled labour to enable a net zero economy?
- Speaker
- 27/2/2020
- Meeting with Scottish Government TIMES and CGE modelling teams
- Recipient
- 9/9/2019
- TIMES/CGE Workshop - The Use of Economic and Energy System Modelling for energy Policy Analysis
- Participant
- 23/5/2019
- All energy 2019
- Participant
- 15/5/2019
- Interview on BBC Reporting Scotland about EPSRC CESI electric vehicles research
- Recipient
- 14/5/2019
- Interview on BBC Good Morning Scotland
- Recipient
- 14/5/2019
More professional activities
Projects
- Who ultimately pays for and who gains from the electricity network upgrade for EVs to support the UK?s net zero-carbon ambitions?
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021
- Scotland's Net Zero Roadmap (SNZR)
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2020
- Accounting and scenario analyses to measuring and unlocking value to enable Just Transitions in the decarbonisation of uk industry clusters
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Swales, John (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2021
- Optimal network upgrade investment timing and wider economy returns for the EV roll-out
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Alabi, Oluwafisayo Titilope (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020
- The Role of CCUS in Industry Clusters in Delivering Value to the Political Economy
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Alabi, Oluwafisayo Titilope (Researcher) Katris, Antonios (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020
- The role of CCS in industry clusters in delivering value to the political economy
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
More projects
Address
Politics
McCance Building
McCance Building
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