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
- UKERC Conference
- Participant
- 14/6/2022
- Invited keynote for You-Tube broadcast
- Speaker
- 11/5/2022
- The wider economy impacts of net zero industry development: Lessons from Scotland’s Net Zero Infrastructure Programme
- Speaker
- 26/4/2022
- Meeting with HMT officials to introduce CEP carbon pricing work
- Recipient
- 21/4/2022
- Interview on BBC Breakfast show
- Recipient
- 7/4/2022
- BBC Radio 5 live breakfast show interview
- Recipient
- 7/4/2022
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Projects
- Exploring wage-driven employment displacement in a supply constrained labour market and the impacts on integrating CCUS into the UK economy
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2023
- CXC Industry Times model industry sector update
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator)
- 04-Jan-2022 - 18-Jan-2022
- Ocean Renewable Energy Fuel (OCEAN-REFuel)
- Brennan, Feargal (Principal Investigator) Collu, Maurizio (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2026
- Accounting and scenario analyses to measuring and unlocking value to enable just transitions in the decarbonisation of UK industrial clusters - BRIDGE
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
- Delivering a sustainable and equitable heat transition in the UK (SEHT)
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Research Co-investigator) Alabi, Oluwafisayo Titilope (Researcher) Hawker, Graeme (Researcher) Katris, Antonios (Researcher) Stewart, Jamie (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
- Developing new international public policy norms to achieve sustainable and equitable net-zero societies
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
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