Professor Fiona Steele

About

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 modelling, event history analysis and dyadic data analysis. She has worked on a range of applications in demography (e.g. residential mobility, union formation and dissolution, and contraceptive use dynamics), education (the consequences of parental divorce for children’s educational outcomes, the impact of school resources on pupil attainment), family psychology (reciprocal influences between parents and children, sibling interactions), and health (child health, mental health and employment transitions, determinants and consequences of stress among nurses).