Dr. Fiona Steele

Biography

Fiona Steele is a Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), specializing in the development of statistical methods motivated by social science problems. Her research expertise encompasses longitudinal data analysis, multilevel modelling, event history analysis, and dyadic data analysis. Fiona's work has a broad range of applications, including demography—such as residential mobility and union formation and dissolution—as well as education, family psychology, and health. She has been involved in significant research grants funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and has led projects examining the interrelationships between housing transitions and fertility in Britain and Australia. Fiona is also known for her role in the LEMMA project, where she contributed to the development of a popular online training course on multilevel modelling, utilized by over 20,000 registered users globally. She has received several accolades, including the Royal Statistical Society's Guy Medal in Bronze in 2008, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009. Furthermore, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2011 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2022 for her services to social sciences.

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