The care experience of people with diagnosed or suspected dementia living in prison: A case study approach
Journal Article
MacRae, R., Chalmers, N., Tolson, D., Taylor, J., Anderson, K., Thomson, L., & Russ, T. (online)
The care experience of people with diagnosed or suspected dementia living in prison: A case study approach. Dementia, https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012251338873
Complex health and social care needs of people living in prison with diagnosed or suspected dementia is a growing concern for prisons and prison healthcare staff. The literatu...
The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation Episode 2 | Season 4
Digital Artefact
Anderson, K. (2025)
The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation Episode 2 | Season 4. [Podcast]
Podcast Description on Website:
'In this episode our host Rachelle Cobain talks to Dr Kirstin Anderson about a new book she’s edited called ‘The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art,...
Pre and post diagnostic dementia care in four Scottish prisons
Journal Article
MacRae, R., Chalmers, N., Tolson, D., Taylor, J., Anderson, K., Thomson, L., & Russ, T. (2024)
Pre and post diagnostic dementia care in four Scottish prisons. Health and Justice, 12(1), Article 43. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-024-00294-5
Background and purpose: The number of older people in prisons is increasing across the globe. Many have poor physical and mental health, higher prevalence of head injury, cogn...
The Barlinnie Special Unit Art, Punishment and Innovation
Book
Anderson, K. (Ed.)
(2025). The Barlinnie Special Unit Art, Punishment and Innovation. Waterside Press
Fifty years ago, a small unit in HM Prison Barlinnie, Glasgow, became a radical experiment whose approach polarised opinion. It encouraged shared decision-making between priso...
Connection through Music for Mothers and Young Children in Prison
Book Chapter
Lamela, I., & Anderson, K. (2023)
Connection through Music for Mothers and Young Children in Prison. In M. S. Barrett, & G. F. Welch (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music (588-602). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190927523.013.35
This chapter examines a particular sector of music practice that is seemingly underrepresented in the literature: music-making between mothers and their children residing toge...
Longer sentences? Overcrowded UK prisons are already failing society
Digital Artefact
Foster, R., & Anderson, K. (2023)
Longer sentences? Overcrowded UK prisons are already failing society. [Magazine]
Scotland's Prison Population (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video)
Digital Artefact
Anderson, K. (2023)
Scotland's Prison Population (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video). [Video]
This video accompanies a learning resource titled 'Scotland's Prison Population', as part of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research's learning resource suite for M...
Creative Conversations with Justice and Arts Scotland
Book Chapter
Anderson, K. (2021)
Creative Conversations with Justice and Arts Scotland. In L. Willingham (Ed.), Community Music at the Boundaries (402-408). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Environment, intention and intergenerational music making: Facilitating participatory music making in diverse contexts of community music
Journal Article
Anderson, K., & Willingham, L. (2020)
Environment, intention and intergenerational music making: Facilitating participatory music making in diverse contexts of community music. International Journal of Community Music, 13(2), 173-185. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijcm_00018_1
Current conversations and debates amongst community music and music educational practitioners have engendered the need to identify and describe qualities and leadership strate...