Lecture

• Hilde Kartveit Sundnes; Kjetil Hjørnevik; Judith Ologi (2021). REKOMP-partnerskap med Ask barnehagen om språk, musikk og kommunikasjon særlig og språkutvikling hos barna med et fokus på flerspråklige barn. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Kjetil Klette Bøhler; Åsne Håndlykken-Luz et al. (2025). Round Table Resonating Rights-Interdisciplinary Dialogues for Music and Human Rights Education. (external link)

Academic article

• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2025). ‘More than a sound’: Tone as affective encounter in music therapy in prison. (external link)
• Kjetil Hjørnevik; Leif Waage; Anita Lill Hansen (2022). Musical life stories: coherence through musicking in the prison setting. (external link)
• Kjetil Hjørnevik; Leif Waage (2018). The prison as a therapeutic music scene: Exploring musical identities in music therapy and everyday life in a prison setting. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Fredrik Berntsen Due; Elin Kirkhus Thieu et al. (2020). Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Music Therapy for Prison Inmates: Six-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial. (external link)

Media feature article

• Maren Metell; Viggo Krüger; Lars Tuastad et al. (2025). Musikkterapi i funksjonshemmede barn og unges oppvekst. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2024). Exploring music therapy in a Norwegian prison through participatory arts based action research. (external link)
• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2024). Angelic Harmony - Exploring Music Therapy with inmates in a Norwegian prison. (external link)
• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2024). Angelic Harmony - Exploring music therapy with prison inmates in a Norwegian prison. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2022). An ethnography of music therapy in a Norwegian prison: Exploring musicking, identity,and change in the carceral setting. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

Articles (peer reviewed)

Hjørnevik, K. (in press). Wanted dead or alive: The collaborative art of performing music therapy in prison. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v26i2.4558

Hjørnevik, K. (2025). More than a sound: Tone as affective encounter in music therapy in prison. The Arts in Psychotherapy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/[add DOI if available]

Hjørnevik, K., Waage, L., & Hansen, A. L. (2023). Musical life stories: Coherence through musicking in the prison setting. Crime, Media, Culture, 19(1), 74–94.

Gold, C., Due, F. B., Thieu, E. K., Hjørnevik, K., Tuastad, L., & Assmus, J. (2020). Long-term effects of short-term music therapy for prison inmates: Six-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X20909216

Hjørnevik, K., & Waage, L. (2019). The prison as a therapeutic music scene: Exploring musical identities in music therapy and everyday life in a prison setting. Punishment & Society, 21(4), 454–472. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474518794187

Gold, C., Assmus, J., Hjørnevik, K., Qvale, L. G., Brown, F. K., Hansen, A. L., & Stige, B. (2014). Music therapy for prisoners: Pilot randomized controlled trial and implications for evaluating psychosocial interventions. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 58(12), 1520–1539.

 

Book chapters

Hjørnevik, K. (in press). From “crime scene” to “music scene”? Music therapy in a Scandinavian prison. In A. Chamberlen & R. Bernatek (Eds.), Carceral arts: Global perspectives on creativity, justice & resistance. Bristol University Press.

 

PhD thesis:

Hjørnevik, K (2021). 'An Ethnography of Music Therapy in a Norwegian Prison: Exploring Musicking, Identity and Change in the Carceral Setting'. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London. 

PhD (Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy/Goldsmiths, London)

Postgraduate Diploma in Music Therapy (Roehampton University, London)

MA Music (City University, London)