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 吃瓜tv, where she leads a portfolio of work UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), philanthropic organisations such as the Children鈥檚 Investment Fund Foundation and the Bellona Foundation and various government and industry bodies. Karen鈥檚 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, 聽to enable the deployment of different decarbonisation solutions.聽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鈥檚 Just Transitions Commission
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 5/2/2026
Publications
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- Energy Research and Social Science Vol 135 (2026)
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- Utilities Policy Vol 99 (2026)
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Professional Activities
- Speaker
- 25/3/2026
- Recipient
- 12/12/2025
- Host
- 4/9/2025
- Contributor
- 7/2025
- Speaker
- 20/6/2025
- Speaker
- 12/6/2025
Projects
- 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
- 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
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator)
- 17-Jan-2024 - 05-Jan-2025
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Research Co-investigator) Corbett, Hannah (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2028
- Turner, Karen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
Contact
Professor
Karen
Turner
Director Of The Centre For Energy Policy
Centre for Energy Policy
Email: karen.turner@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3198