Dr Iain Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Music and Programme Leader for BA Commercial Music at UWS. His research is concerned with the changing materialities of music forms, formats and spaces. 

Iain is co-managing editor and lead designer of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which provides a space for experimental ways of thinking and writing about popular music research. 

Prior to entering academia, Iain worked variously in events marketing and PR, music tuition, and as a multi-instrumentalist musician. As a performing artist he has released music on a variety of Scottish independent labels including Glasgow-based indie label Olive Grove Records, Hebridean micro-label Lost Map, and the now defunct Fife-based Fence Records.