Jouni Kuha

Jouni Kuha is a Professor of Social Statistics and MSc Social Statistics Programme Director at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of Statistics. His expertise lies in latent variable modeling, survey data analysis, measurement error, and missing data, with applications in social sciences. He collaborates on projects addressing education mobility, public attitudes toward policing, family support dynamics, and global medicine accessibility. He contributed to the UK General Election exit poll analysis and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2021.

Education: MSocSc (Statistics) from the University of Helsinki (1992), PhD (Social Statistics) from the University of Southampton (1996). Prior roles include postdoctoral research at Nuffield College, Oxford, and Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University. Teaching includes courses on applied regression analysis, multivariate analysis, and statistical modeling.

Research interests span latent variable models, categorical data analysis, and methodological advancements in multilevel and latent class analysis. Recent work focuses on digital trace data biases, procedural justice in policing, and intergenerational welfare dynamics. His methodological contributions include R package implementations for multilevel latent class analysis.

Scientific awards include Fellowship of the British Academy (2021). Key grants and collaborations involve cross-national studies on citizenship norms, crime victimization, and healthcare policy. He advises on statistical methodologies for social science applications and maintains active involvement in the LSE’s Department of Methodology.