Research output per year
Research output per year
BA(hons), MA
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).
General Editor of the current issue of Question Journal. Co-organiser of the Low End Theories conference (May 2023). Project Lead at Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust, designing sound-based education workshops for KS2 students. President and workshop organiser for the University of Bristol Poetry and Creative Writing Society (2023-2024). Research disseminated at the IASPM UK and Ireland conference (2020) and the ACM Web Science conference (2021) and BFE-RMA annual conferences (2020, 2021, 2022). Co-authored publications in Question Journal and the Journal for Education in Museums, and a solo authored chapter in a forthcoming edited collection.
MA Music, University of Bristol
Award Date: 16 Dec 2019
BA (Hons) English and Film, Radio & Television, Canterbury Christ Church University
Award Date: 19 Jun 2006
Project Lead (Education Workshop Development), Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust
1 Aug 2023 → 31 Dec 2023
Lecturer, Access Creative College
1 Jun 2016 → 31 Dec 2019
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Higgins, M. R. (Editor) & Neill Andres, D. (Editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Williams, J. A. (Organiser), Seymour, K. (Organiser), Higgins, M. R. (Contributor) & Bowes, L. (Contributor)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
Higgins, M. R. (Organiser), Mouraviev, I. (Organiser) & Gamble, S. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference