Aude Bicquelet-Lock

Professor Aude Bicquelet-Lock

Director of Research and Development
The Graduate School
aude.bicquelet-lock@uwl.ac.uk

I am Director of Research and Development and Professor of Public Policy and Research Methods.

Before joining UWL, I was Deputy Head of Policy and Research at the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and Visiting Professor at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments at the University of the West of England.

My research interests lie at the intersection of mixed-methods and evidence-based public policy analysis with a particular focus on the analysis of large corpora (i.e. public consultations; social media data and parliamentary debates).

Research

  • Research and publications

    Peer-reviewed journal articles

    2023. Aude Bicquelet-Lock. ‘The Future of the Profession – Follow-up considerations’ Planning Practice & Research (39:2).

    2022. Karen Horwood, Aude Bicquelet-Lock, Sue Manns, Charlotte Morphet and Natalya Palit. ‘The substantive and descriptive representation of women in Planning: analysis from practice and academia’ Town Planning Review (93:6).

    2021. Aude Bicquelet-Lock. ‘Enabling Healthy Placemaking: Overcoming barriers and learning from best practices’ Cities and Health (1-5).

    2020. Aude Bicquelet-Lock and Judith Taylor. ‘The Future of the Profession – An analysis of the challenges facing the next generation of planners’ Journal of Urban Regeneration & Renewal (13:4).

    2018. Tom Kenny, Trudi Elliott and Aude Bicquelet-Lock, ‘Better planning for housing affordability – Three approaches to solve the housing crisis in the UK’ Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal 11(3): 1-9.

    2018. Denisa Kostovicova and Aude Bicquelet, ‘Norm contestation and reconciliation: evidence from a regional transitional justice process in the Balkans’ Ethnic and Racial Studies 41 (4): 681-700.

    2018. Aude Bicquelet and Helen Addison: Are Discretionary Referendums on EU Integration becoming ‘Politically Obligatory?’ The case of France and the United Kingdom. Parliamentary Affairs 71 (2): 219-242.

    2017. Meghana Vagwala, Aude Bicquelet, Gabija Didziokaite and Ilina Singh. ‘Towards a Moral Ecology of Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement in British Universities’ Neuroethics 10 (3): 389–403.

    2017. Aude Bicquelet: Using Online Mining Techniques to inform Formative Evaluations: An Analysis of YouTube Video Comments about Chronic Pain. Evaluation 23 (3): 323-338.

    2016. Bicquelet Aude, Helen Addison. ‘How to refuse a vote on the EU? The case against the referendum in the House of Commons’ (1974-2010). Quality & Quantity 51 (5): 2141–2162.

    2012. Albert Weale, Bicquelet Aude, Judith Bara. ‘Debating Abortion: Deliberative Reciprocity and Parliamentary Advocacy’ Political studies 60 (3): 643-667.

    2012. Bicquelet Aude, Albert Weale, Judith Bara. ‘In a Different Parliamentary Voice?’ Politics & Gender 8(1): 83-121.

    2011. Bicquelet Aude, Albert Weale. ‘Coping with the Cornucopia: Can Text Mining Help Handle the Data Deluge in Public Policy Analysis?’ Policy & Internet 3 (4): 150-171.

    2007. Judith Bara, Albert Weale, Aude Bicquelet. ‘Analysing Parliamentary Debates with Computer Assistance’ Swiss Political Science Review 13 (4): 577-605.

    Book

    2014. Textual Analysis: Four Volumes (with Martin Bauer and Ahmet Suerdem)
    Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods.

    • Volume One: Basic Philosophical Considerations
    • Volume Two: Modalities of Textual Work
    • Volume Three: Reading Text
    • Volume Four: Using Text

    Policy reports

    2021. Women and Planning (Part II) – Creating Gender-Sensitive Urban Environments Post-Covid-19: Challenges and Opportunities.

    2020. Planning for Post-Covid Cities: A text-mining analysis of public views on the future of High Streets and Town Centres.

    2020. Enabling Healthy Placemaking: Overcoming barriers and learning from best practices.

    2020. Women and planning: An analysis of gender related barriers to professional advancement.

    2019. Child Friendly Planning Policy in the UK: A review.

    2019. Clearing a path between planners, planning policy and academics: Perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of planning research. RTPI position paper also published in the Journal of the Town and Planning Association Vol. 88 (1), 17-20.

    2018. The Value of Planning in Wales. Arup, RTPI Cymru and the Welsh Government.

    2018. Planning for Climate Change: A Guide for Local Authorities. TCPA and RTPI.

    2016. Young People’s Perceptions of Food Marketing and Obesity: Qualitative scoping work for the PRCP’s Youth Policy Surveys. ScotCen Social Research; NatCen Social Research; Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling; and Policy Research Centre for Cancer Prevention, Cancer Research UK.

    2016. Youth Policy Survey (YPS) Pilot Project on Alcohol: Results from a preliminary study of young people’s perceptions and experiences of drinking and alcohol marketing. Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling, ScotCen Social Research, NatCen Social Research and Cancer Research UK.

    2016. Experiences of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for people with sensory loss. Thomas Pocklington Trust, Royal National Institute of Blind People and Sense.

    2015. Reading between the lines: analysis of free text responses to assisted dying consultation. Royal College of Physicians. Commentary.

    2011. Consultation Report on ‘Life Extending and End of Life treatments’. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

    2009. Consultation Report on the ‘Value of Innovation’. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.