Distant Voices: Coming Home

Distant Voices: Coming Home

Distant Voices is a project that explores crime, punishment and reintegration through songwriting and other forms of creative expression.  We pair some of Scotland’s best songwriters with people who’ve experienced the criminal justice system from lots of different angles. This has included people in prison, social workers, probation officers, prison officers and governors, as well as those affected by an experience of crime, or participants in communities and families who receive people coming home.

Distant Voices

Research Projects:

Prof Fergus E McNeill

  • 2017-2021: Distant Voices – Coming Home (ESRC/AHRC Standard Grant, £1,015,293) as principal investigator with Jo Collinson Scott (University of the West of Scotland), Oliver Escobar (University of Edinburgh) and Alison Urie (Vox Liminis)
  • 2014-2015: Distant Voices 2 (Scottish Prison Service, ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, University of Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund, £45,000) as principal investigator
  • 2013-2014: Distant Voices 1 (University of Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund, £10,000) as principal investigator

 

Distant Voices festival: 16 April 2020: https://www.voxliminis.co.uk/coming-up/distant-voices-festival/

Distant Voices - Community and Public Engagement 

Distant Voices Project Launch Debut Album (21 May 2018)

Distant Voices: Silent Seconds - An EP written by prisoners and musicians sheds light on crime and punishment (4 Nov 2015)

Vox Liminis - Distant Voices project website