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
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 Good Morning Scotland
- Recipient
- 14/5/2019
- Interview on BBC Reporting Scotland about EPSRC CESI electric vehicles research
- 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
- ISCF 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 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
- 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
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Address
Politics
McCance Building
McCance Building
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