Prof. Fiona Steele

Save the date for the Data Sciences Speaker Series with Prof. Fiona Steele, Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics. This talk is co-sponsored by the Data Sciences Institute and the Ontario Regional Centre of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI Ontario) , University of Toronto. 

Registration TBA 

• Date: April 15, 2023 
• Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm 
• Format: In-person 

Biography: 

Prof. Fiona Steele’s research interests are in developments of statistical methods that are motivated by social science problems. Her areas of expertise include longitudinal data analysis, multilevel and latent variable modelling, and models for complex covariance structures. She has worked on a range of applications in demography, education, family psychology and health.  

She has directed several research grants funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), including the LEMMA node of the National Centre for Research Methods for which she led the development of a popular online training course on multilevel modelling which has over 30,000 registered users worldwide. Recent grants have been for projects on the interrelationships between housing transitions and fertility in Britain and Australia, and on methods for the analysis of longitudinal dyadic data with applications to intergenerational exchanges of support in Britain.  

She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009.  Personal website:  http://stats.lse.ac.uk/steele/