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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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📢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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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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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
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📢 Do you work in museums & want to help The Sensational Museum’s Communication Strand make radical change to exhibition design a reality?

Fill out (and/or share) our short survey about your experiences working with multisensory approaches in museums! t.co/Utpu6a9iOe
November 6, 2023 at 12:15 PM
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📣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.
November 3, 2023 at 6:01 PM
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📣PSA about my current research

The Sensational Museum ‘Strand A Collections’ survey on multisensory and accessibility in heritage practice, data models and user interfaces of collections management software now open: bit.ly/3ESAQNH

Check it out if you work in UK heritage or for CMS providers
October 2, 2023 at 6:24 PM