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Details for Professor Fiona Steele
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Fiona Steele |
| Job title | Professor of Social Statistics |
| Department | Graduate School of Education University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | I am a member of the Royal Statistical Society’s Social Statistics Section committee and Chair of the Avon Local Group. I am also a member of the ESRC Research Resources Board, which has responsibility for developing resources such as data, research methods, and information technology for UK social research. I am an Associate Editor of the Sociological Methodology and a member of the editorial board for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies. |
| Keywords | statistical methods for social research multilevel modelling demography child and adolescent outcomes socio-economic status family planning evaluation child health school resources |
| Areas of expertise | Research interests •Statistical methods for social research, including multilevel modelling, event history (survival) analysis and structural equation modelling. •Applications in demography (including contraceptive discontinuation and method switching for family planning evaluation, child health in developing countries, the impact of women’s participation in credit programmes in Bangladesh, the relationship between childbearing and partnership outcomes in Britain, and the impact of school resources on pupil attainment in Britain) Biography My main interests are in methodological research motivated by social science problems, particularly in the field of demography. I am currently working on three ESRC-funded research projects: LEMMA (a Learning Environment for Multilevel Modelling and Applications), an examination of the impact of family socio-economic status on child and adolescent outcomes (with the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at Bristol), and hierarchical analysis of unit nonresponse in sample surveys (with the University of Southampton). |