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
- 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
- Achieving economy-wide gains from residential energy efficiency improvements : the importance of timing and funding approach in driving the transition
- Katris Antonios, Turner Karen
- Environmental Policy and Governance Vol 35, pp. 13-25 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2124
- The implications of the projected decline in UK oil and gas extraction : economic losses or freed-up capacity?
- Karkoutli Anas, Katris Antonios, Turner Karen
- (2024)
- The importance of heat pump cost reduction and domestic supply chain development in the presence of persisting energy price shocks
- Katris Antonios, Turner Karen, Calvillo Christian F, Zhou Long
- Energy Strategy Reviews Vol 55 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2024.101518
- Two Keys to Unlocking a Resilient, Sustainable, More Equitable and Prosperous Net Zero Transition
- Turner Karen, Corbett Hannah, Pritchard Colin, Speirs Jamie
- (2024)
Professional Activities
- Ofgem ORE Research seminar
- Speaker
- 12/2/2025
- SPEN RIIO-T3 Business Plan public webinar
- Invited speaker
- 21/1/2025
- Interview on BBC Radio Scotland Lunchtime Live on UK Government Clean Power Plan
- Recipient
- 13/12/2024
- Discussion of findings with SPEN's INZAC
- Contributor
- 29/11/2024
- Meeting with DESNZ International Hydrogen team
- Contributor
- 22/11/2024
- Climate Change Committee - invited advice on economic impacts of net zero transition
- Recipient
- 29/10/2024
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