Mark RJ Higgins

UKRI-funded doctoral student at the University of Bristol and University of Southampton. Research specialisms include genre in popular music, music histories, music technology, intermediality and intertextuality, ecocriticism, musical texture and timbre, intra- and inter-cultural dynamics, and creative agency within online and offline spaces. Applied methods include music analysis, historiography, ethnography, qualitative data analysis, semiotic and corporeal approaches to timbral interpretation, actor-network theory, media archaeology, and novel applications of spectrographic and AI tools for music information retrieval (MIR).

When I'm not immersed in academic stuff, I also like to make music, go to places and write about things.