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Dr George Leckie

Lecturer in Social Statistics

• email: g.leckie@bristol.ac.uk
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Research Interests

My main research interests are in developing and applying quantitative research methodology to social science and educational research questions, particularly those characterised by complex multilevel structured data.

My applications of multilevel modelling and other methods include: highlighting statistical limitations of England’s school league tables; assessing the quality of marking of England’s national curriculum key stage educational tests; and modelling social and ethnic segregation among schools and neighbourhoods.

My methodological interests are driven by my substantive applications and include: multilevel models, latent variable models and mixture models.

My statistical software interests are in developing runmlwin, a Stata command to fit multilevel models in MLwiN from within Stata.

Biography

I joined the Centre for Multilevel Modelling in 2005 and worked on an ESRC-funded research project: LEMMA 1 (a Learning Environment for Multilevel Modelling and Applications). He was a co-investigator on the ESRC-funded research project LEMMA 2 and is currently a co-investigator on the ESRC-funded research projects e-Stat and LEMMA 3.

My research (with Professor Harvey Goldstein), on the limitations of using school league tables to inform school choice, received considerable attention in the press; including: BBC Radio 4, Financial Times, The Telegraph and The Times Educational Supplement.

I have taught short courses on Multilevel Modelling in: Belfast, Bristol, Brussels, Cincinnati, Dublin, Essex, London, Paris and Zurich.

Previously, I have held research positions at the Centre for Market and Public Organisation in the Department of Economics, University of Bristol and was a visiting researcher at Cornell University, University of York, and VU University Amsterdam.

Current Research Projects

e-Stat

LEMMA 3

Past Research Projects

LEMMA 2

LEMMA 1

Peer Reviewed Publications

• Jenkins, J., Rasbash, J., Leckie, G., Gass, K. and Dunn, J. (2012). The role of maternal factors in sibling relationship quality: a multilevel study of multiple dyads per family. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 53, 622-629.
• Leckie, G., Pillinger, R., Jones, K. and Goldstein, H. (2012). Multilevel modelling of social segregation. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 37, 3-30.
• Cheung, C., Goodman, D., Leckie, G. and Jenkins, J. (2011). Understanding Contextual Effects on Externalizing Behaviors in Children in Out-of-home Care: Influence of Workers and Foster Families. Children and Youth Services Review, 33, 2050-2060.
• Leckie, G. and Baird, J.-A. (2011). Rater effects on essay scoring: A multilevel analysis of severity drift, central tendency and rater experience. Journal of Educational Measurement, 48, 399-418.
• Leckie, G. and Goldstein, H. (2011). A note on “The limitations of using school league tables to inform school choice”. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 174, 833-836.
• Leckie, G. and Goldstein, H. (2011). Understanding uncertainty in school league tables. Fiscal Studies, 32, 207-224.
• Rasbash, J., Leckie, G., Pillinger, R. and Jenkins, J. (2010). Children's educational progress: partitioning family, school and area effects, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A , 173, Part 4, 1-26.
• Leckie, G. (2009). The complexity of school and neighbourhood effects and movements of pupils on school differences in models of educational achievement, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 172, 537-554.
• Leckie, G. and Goldstein, H. (2009). The limitations of using school league tables to inform school choice, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 172, 835-851.
• Propper, C., Burgess, S., Bolster, A., Leckie, G., Jones, K. and Johnston, R. (2007). The Impact of Neighbourhood on the Income and Mental Health of British Social Renters, Urban Studies, 44, 393-415.
• Propper, C., Damiani, M., Leckie, G. and Dixon, J. (2007). Impact of patients’ socioeconomic status on the distance travelled for hospital admission in the English National Health Service, Journal of Health Service Research & Policy, 12, 153-159.

Other Publications (selected)

• Leckie, G. (2012) Cross-classified hierarchical linear modeling, in Michalos, A. C (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Quality of Life Research, Springer Reference. Forthcoming.
• Leckie, G. (2012) Cross-classified multilevel models using Stata: How important are schools and neighbourhoods for students’ educational attainment? In Garson, D. (Ed.) Hierarchical Linear Modeling: Guide and Applications. Sage.
• Leckie, G. (2012) Multiple membership models, in Michalos, A. C (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Quality of Life Research, Springer Reference. Forthcoming.
• Propper, C. and Leckie, G. (2011) Increasing Competition Between Providers in Health Care Markets: The Economic Evidence. In Smith, P. and Glied, S. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Health Economics. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Leckie, G., Pillinger, R., Jenkins, J. and Rasbash, J. (2010) School, family, neighbourhood: which is most important to a child's education? Significance, 67-72.
• Goldstein, H. and Leckie, G. (2008) School League Tables: What can they really tell us? Significance, 5, 67-69.