Fiona Steele

Professor Fiona Steele is a renowned academic in the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She specializes in statistical methods for social research, with expertise in longitudinal data analysis, multilevel modelling, and event history analysis. Her research addresses social science problems in demography, education, family psychology, and health.

• Joined LSE in 1996 as a Lecturer, later held roles at the Institute of Education (UCL) and the University of Bristol (2005–2013), where she directed the Centre for Multilevel Modelling.
• Developed an online multilevel modelling course with over 20,000 global users under the LEMMA project.
• Recipient of awards including the RSS Guy Medal (2008), British Academy Fellowship (2009), OBE (2011), CBE (2022), and the RSS Howard Medal (2024).

Her grants include studies on housing transitions, fertility patterns, and dyadic data analysis in family support systems. She currently teaches multilevel and longitudinal models and leads research on statistical methodologies for social sciences.