Kjetil Hjørnevik

Kjetil Hjørnevik is an Associate Professor at the Department of Music, The Grieg Academy, University of Bergen. His work focuses on music therapy in carceral settings, exploring identity formation, rehabilitation, and social integration through music.

Research Interests:

• Music therapy for prison inmates
• Ethnographic studies of musicking in correctional facilities
• Identity and rehabilitation dynamics
• Participatory arts-based action research
• Therapeutic music scenes
• Applied music in marginalized communities

Publications highlight interdisciplinary work bridging music therapy, criminology, and sociology, with a focus on longitudinal impacts of therapeutic interventions and participatory methodologies.

Collaborations:

• GAMUT – Grieg Academy’s Center for Music Therapy Research
• NLA University College (Department of Teacher Education)
• Helse Bergen HF – Haukeland University Hospital (Security, Prison, and Forensic Psychiatry Competence Center)