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Biography and research interests
I am a Reader in Social Statistics and Co-Director of the Centre for Multilevel Modelling (CMM) at the School of Education, University of Bristol, UK.
My methodological interests are in the development, application and dissemination of multilevel and related models to analyse educational and other data. My substantive interests focus on design, analysis, and communication issues surrounding school performance measures and league tables, especially the use of value-added models for estimating school effects on student achievement for accountability and choice purposes.
I was awarded the Frances Wood Medal in the Royal Statistical Society's 2017 honours for my contributions to Social Statistics over the past 10 years, especially my school league table research.
I am currently principal investigator on an ESRC standard grant on new school league table research and am a co-investigator on an MRC grant and on a Swedish Research Council grant. Previously, I held an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant and have been a co-investigator on four other substantial ESRC grants.
My research has been published in various international journals, including: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A; Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics; Journal of Educational Measurement; and Journal of Statistical Software.
I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A.
I have taught over 50 multilevel modelling short courses across UK, Europe, Australia and US.
Research grants
I have been grant funded 40% of my time over the ten year period 2010/11 through 2019/20. My grants as Principal Investigator sum to £650,000 while my grants as Co-Investigator sum to over £5 million.
Current grants
- 2018-2021 How should we measure school performance and hold schools accountable? A study of competing statistical methods and how they compare to Progress 8, ESRC Standard Grant, £467,000, Principal Investigator.
- 2018-2021 Multilevel Analyses of Individual Heterogeneity: innovative concepts and methodological approaches in Public Health and Social Epidemiology, Swedish Research Council, £437,000, Co-Investigator
- 2016-2019 Modelling within-individual variation in repeated continuous exposures, MRC, £398,000, Co-Investigator
Past grants
- 2013-2018 The development of cooperation in relationships: Protective processes for children vulnerable to mental health problems, Canadian Institute of Health Research, £274,000, Co-Investigator
- 2013-2017 eBooks: The use of interactive electronic-books in the teaching and application of modern quantitative methods in the social sciences, ESRC, £786,000, Co-Investigator
- 2013-2015 Multilevel modelling of the Government's new school performance measures, 'Floor Standards' Target and 'Narrowing the Gap' Priority, ESRC, £207,000, Principal-Investigator
- 2012-2013 The impact of family relationships on children's developmental health: Child versus context effects, £50,000, Canadian Institute of Health Research, Co-Investigator
- 2011-2015 LEMMA 3: Longitudinal effects, multilevel modelling and applications, ESRC, £1,393,000, Co-Investigator
- 2009-2012 e-STAT: National Centre for E-social Science Quantitative Node, ESRC, £1,100,000, Co-Investigator
- 2008-2011 LEMMA 2: STRUCTURES for building, learning, applying and computing statistical models, ESRC, £1,200,000, Co-Investigator
External positions
Associate Professor (Status only), Graduate Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Projects
How should we measure school performance and hold schools accountable? A study of competing statistical methods and how they compare to Progress 8
Leckie, G. B., Goldstein, H. & Prior, L. J.
24/09/18 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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Multilevel Analyses of Individual Heterogeneity in Public health: questioning past evidence with new conceptual and methodological approaches
Merlo, J., Leckie, G. B., Mulinari, S., Subramanian, S. & Austin, P. C.
1/01/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Modelling within-individual variation in repeated continuous exposures
Tilling, K. M., Heron, J. E., Goldstein, H., Muniz-Terrera, G., Howe, L. D., Macdonald-Wallis, C. M. & Leckie, G. B.
1/10/16 → 31/03/19
Project: Research
Research Output
Analysing inter-provincial urban migration flows in China: A new multilevel gravity model approach: A new multilevel gravity model approach
Zhang, N., Wang, W., Harris, R. & Leckie, G., Mar 2020, In : Migration Studies. 8, 1, p. 19–42 24 p., mny026.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Open Access
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Estimating reliability statistics and measurement error variances using instrumental variables with longitudinal data
Goldstein, H., Leckie, G., Haynes, M. & Tran, P., 10 Mar 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Joint modelling of individual trajectories, within-individual variability and a later outcome: systolic blood pressure through childhood and left ventricular mass in early adulthood
Parker, R. M. A., Leckie, G., Goldstein, H., Howe, L. D., Heron, J., Hughes, A. D., Phillippo, D. M. & Tilling, K., 27 Apr 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : American Journal of Epidemiology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Prizes
Co-author of ‘best paper’ for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
Leckie, George B (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Outstanding reviewer award for Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
Leckie, George B (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Royal Statistical Society Wood Medal
Leckie, George B (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
Educational Effectiveness EARLI SIG meeting
George Leckie (Speaker)
Aug 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
HEFCE (External organisation)
George Leckie (Advisor)
12 Apr 2016
Activity: Membership types › Advisory work for/on national or international committee or working group
External PhD Examiner, University of Toronto
George Leckie (Examiner)
15 Jun 2016
Activity: Examination types › External Examination and Supervision
Supervised Work
Analysis of longitudinal jaw growth data to study sex differences in timing and intensity of the adolescent growth spurt for normal growth and skeletal discrepancies
Author: Sandhu, S. S., 23 Jan 2020Supervisor: Leckie, G. (Supervisor), Tilling, K. (Supervisor) & Hughes, R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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A Study of Interprovincial Migration in China Using Extended Gravity Models
Author: Zhang, N., 19 Mar 2019Supervisor: Leckie, G. (Supervisor), Wang, W. (Supervisor) & Harris, R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms
Author: Kwong, A. S. F., 23 Jan 2020Supervisor: Manley, D. (Supervisor), Timpson, N. J. (Supervisor) & Leckie, G. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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