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Sophie Vohra
@sophievohra.bsky.social
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Disruptor and heritage lover | academic in public history, digital humanities and railway history | former museum professional | Intersectional feminist | MHFAider
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Sophie Vohra @sophievohra.bsky.social · Nov 18
📢 NEW TSM PODCAST ALERT📢

@sensationalmuseum.bsky.social Sensational Short episode on Identity with me and @suryabowyer.com now ready for your ears (or eyes: descriptive transcript available - docs.google.com/file/d/1CU5v...)
Sensational Shorts - Identity
The Sensational Museum · Episode
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Two businesses I need in my life yesterday

1️⃣ Binge Boxes™ — mystery bundles for screen junkies: “one more episode?” coins, watchlist trackers, popcorn candles, cult-film stickers 🎬
2️⃣ Female horror villain only merch — Carrie mugs, Samara tees, Annie Wilkes totes. Girls of gore > final girl bore 🔪
August 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Am I wrong for thinking that there should be a higher salary for this Curator of Diverse Perspectives role @thackraymuseum.bsky.social..?

#fairmuseumjobs
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June 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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📢Autistic participants wanted for AR + VR heritage accessibility study📢

Exciting opportunity to participate in the amazing Shelby Navone’s doctoral research!

See the attached flyer (/alt-text) or get in touch with Shelby at snn9@le.ac.uk for more information 🌟
A flyer for Shelby Navone’s research, including details of a call out asking for autistic participants to take part in an AR and VR accessibility study for her doctoral research at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Autistic Participants Wanted for AR & VR Accessibility Studies! Help improve digital accessibility by participating in one or both of these exciting studies designed for autistic needs! Study 1: Virtual Reality (VR), MetaQuest Headset ° Location: University of Leicester 17 When: February/March 2025 Study 2: Augmented Reality (AR), Microsoft HoloLens ° Location: Natural History Museum, London a When: March/April 2025 HIGHLIGHTS • ALL backgrounds, abilities, genders, and ages (18+) welcome • Self-identifying with autism okay, no formal diagnosis needed • Choose your experience: • VR: One-on-one or small groups (2-3 people). • AR: Small group setting. • Low-pressure commitment • Share your feedback in a way that works best for you • £35 'thank-you' payment Go to: www.shelbynavone.com/current-phd-research-project/ to learn more and sign up to participate! PhD Researcher: Shelby Navone School of Museum Studies snn9@leicester.ac.uk @PhDShelbyAdventures
January 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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One for Fair Museum Jobs - £12/hr requiring a grad/post-grad/teaching qualification 😑😑😑
Full Time Living History Education Team Member - Murton Park
Murton Park is looking for a Full Time Living History Education Team Member: To deliver all aspects of our school living history learning programme on site, in schools and online. Working individually...
www.murtonpark.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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📢 I couldn’t be more excited that this PhD project exists!

Supported by an incredible academic and professional team 🙌🏽

Share far and wide - all the details are below 👇🏽
December 11, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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📢 I couldn’t be more excited that this PhD project exists!

Supported by an incredible academic and professional team 🙌🏽

Share far and wide - all the details are below 👇🏽
December 11, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Reposted by Sophie Vohra
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Do you have lived experience of #deafness and/or d/Deaf culture and BSL, ASL or International Sign? Our Co-Investigator, @alisonfe.bsky.social and the Uni of Westminster are recruiting for a #PhD studentship. #Deaf #sciencecommunication #museums #accessibility
PhD Studentship: Signing Sound: Deaf Gain within Inclusive Co-created Audio Descriptions of Museum Experiences at University of Westminster
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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Anybody aware of a feed for arts and humanities and/or museums and heritage conferences?
November 30, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Insanely proud of my partner @nicknewman.bsky.social for submitting his PhD thesis - and a massive portfolio of his creative practice!

Watch this space for an *incredible* piece of work (and resources) on guiding theatre directors to better portray Alzheimer’s disease on stage 👏👏👏
a man with a beard and a white shirt is smiling with his eyes closed
Alt: Mr Miyagi, from Karate Kid, an older Japanese man, with a beard and a white shirt, smiling coyly as he nods his head.
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November 30, 2024 at 7:29 AM
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Repost a GIF describing your exit from Twitter.
November 27, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Yay TSM@Bluesky starter pack!
November 27, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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If you want to hear more from @sophievohra.bsky.social (and me too!) then there are a whole host of Sensational Museum podcasts available wherever you find your podcasts.

Including this 9 minute introduction to multisensory in museums: open.spotify.com/episode/4Dml...
Sensational Shorts - Multisensory
The Sensational Museum · Episode
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November 20, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Just going to pop this back on your feed 😊⭐️
sophievohra.bsky.social Sophie Vohra @sophievohra.bsky.social · Nov 18
📢 NEW TSM PODCAST ALERT📢

@sensationalmuseum.bsky.social Sensational Short episode on Identity with me and @suryabowyer.com now ready for your ears (or eyes: descriptive transcript available - docs.google.com/file/d/1CU5v...)
Sensational Shorts - Identity
The Sensational Museum · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Reposted by Sophie Vohra
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🏆Prize announcement! #CFP #History

We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading...

#OlivetteOtelePrize
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October 31, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Job: Associate professor/Assistant Professor in AI & Data Mining for Digital History
Join us at the University of Luxembourg and develop the research, teaching and practices between digital history and #AI
Deadline for application 15/1/2025
recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.h...
November 19, 2024 at 5:43 AM
sophievohra.bsky.social
📢 NEW TSM PODCAST ALERT📢

@sensationalmuseum.bsky.social Sensational Short episode on Identity with me and @suryabowyer.com now ready for your ears (or eyes: descriptive transcript available - docs.google.com/file/d/1CU5v...)
Sensational Shorts - Identity
The Sensational Museum · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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Opening Bluesky up in the morning and finally seeing my feed full of interesting content, joy and cats (which is also joy)
an adirondack chair sits on a dock overlooking a lake at sunset
ALT: an adirondack chair sits on a dock overlooking a lake at sunset
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November 18, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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For the many new faces on here - enjoy a sound of comfort to settle in with @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/0iA4...
Sophie's Sound of 'Comfort'
The Sensational Museum · Episode
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November 16, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Reposted by Sophie Vohra
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Looking for an introduction to the project? Our #podcast is a great place to start. Our 'Sensational Shorts' give short intros to concepts like #DisabilityGain and #Multisensory. Longer podcasts produced for our Belfast and Cardiff retreats get into more detail open.spotify.com/show/1WKXdzx...
The Sensational Museum
Podcast · The Sensational Museum · Welcome to The Sensational Museum Podcast, where we share content that explores access, disability, museum practice and the senses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
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November 15, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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So captivated by not only with the content of the Beyond the Bassline project/exhibition, but how the panel conversation is flowing with incredible facilitation by Miles Greenwood @museumsassociation.bsky.social #Museums2024
Perspective from sat at a table at a panel for Beyond the Bassline panel at Museums Association conference 2024. In the background are two large projector screens in the top left and right showing slides from the Beyond the Bassline exhibition, with a table of four people below them in the middle on the stage who are lit by yellow-hued spotlights. They are in front of a black wall with small lights coming through like stars behind them. In the top of the image are the lighting and ventilation riggings, which have neon purple lighting, facing to the back of the room and downward. In the midsection of the image, and moving towards the photographer are round tables with black table cloths, the backs of black chairs around the tables, and the backs of people’s heads who are attending the panel.
November 12, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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On my train bright and early from #York for the #Museums2024 conference in Leeds
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Photograph taken out of a train carriage window, looking out onto York railway station. With a glass arched ceiling and LNER train carriages in the background. In the foreground are access ramps for trains on the left, with someone in shadow sat on a bench next to them, the main platform with a decorative columned archway, and a three-seat pale metal bench facing the camera to the right. In the very foreground are the words ‘MIND THE STEP’ backwards, so the could be read the right way round for someone walking towards the train, in bold yellow paint on the floor, and a bold yellow ‘safety’ line running right-left in the floor in the very bottom of the image.
November 12, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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Please tell me that at least one other person had that uncanny feeling re parallels between recent Trump news and Agatha Christie’s “A Murder is Announced”…
July 14, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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📣 Want to try something totally different for your collections information?

Apply for Strand A and you could be in with a chance to work with me (good or bad, you decide) to test out a new and kind of radical CMS (full design tbd)

DM me if you have any questions
sensationalmuseum.bsky.social The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Feb 1
Get involved with the Sensational Museum! Applications are now open for museums to become funded pilot museums, testing and developing the work of the project -
sensationalmuseum.org/2024/01/31/a...
February 18, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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📣 It’s your very last chance to have your voices heard! 📣

Survey closes end of play on 5 Dec!

Find out how you can get involved below 👇🏽
sophievohra.bsky.social Sophie Vohra @sophievohra.bsky.social · Nov 3
📣Your input can make a huge difference for The Sensational Museum bit.ly/3ESAQNH

Check this out if…

🖥️ you make, manage + maintain collections management systems used by UK heritage orgs

🏛️OR you work in UK heritage + have access to create, edit + add to collections info on your CMS software
Two pink interlocking S shapes each going from thick to thin lines. The one of the left is thin on the top and thicker on the bottom, the one on the right is thick on the top and thinner on the bottom. To the right of the interlocking S shapes are three words in pink on separate lines which say The Sensational Museum. This is all on top of a white background.
December 4, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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I have been in worse venues…

Really looking forward to repping @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social and doing some recon 👀 at the Museum Development Yorkshire event at York’s beautiful Hospitium today
Historic building with ground level made of pale stone with window openings, a dark brown/black staircase up to the upper level with white frontage and black beams. Trees either side of the building. Blue skies and sun in the background. Photo taken from the concrete walkway to the building with grass either side
November 28, 2023 at 9:31 AM