How can museums create multi-sensory experiences, and collections records? How can The Sensational Museum resources help? How did it change the museum professionals' way of working? Find out! There's still plenty of time to sign up to join our sensational online showcase next week

Liverpool Hope hosts one of the most important and influential Disability Studies departments in the UK. Their emphasis on literary and cultural disability studies has produced research that has radically shaped thinking in the discipline and beyond and they have huge international reach.

@alisonfe.bsky.social @blindspothannah.bsky.social @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce the winner of our #Teaching Prize, awarded to Prof Julia Prest @sta-modlangs.bsky.social for their course 'Translating French Opera' running with support from Birds of Paradise Theatre Company #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ 1/5

Delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries. Raymond Antrobus will be presenting 'An Investigation of Missing Sound' and @blindspothannah.bsky.social 'The Sensational Museum' tinyurl.com/3bzs7wkr

I have broken my finger and can’t touch type atm so I’m using built-in speech to text tools to type for me.They are brilliant! I am amazed and grateful at how useful the little microphone icon is. Will I ever bother using my fingers again?

Last but not least, episode 12 featured @blindspothannah.bsky.social who shared her experiences working in the field of #accessibility. Hannah's work has had a huge influence in the ethos of the #EnhancedAD methods, and it was an honour to get to interview Hannah shows.acast.com/darci-1/epis...

My last shift of the year volunteering at Old Marston library this morning.

Our own Sensational @alisonfe.bsky.social has announced the exciting launch of free training course on Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description (W-ICAD). Aimed at museum professionals and students, audio describers, and those interested in inclusive interpretation, it runs on 14.01.25.

Save the date: Launch of free online training course for the Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description (W-ICAD). The free training course is launching on 14th Jan 2025, with a launch event (4-5pm GMT). More details at w-icad.org @blindspothannah.bsky.social @therealdrdebs.bsky.social

"‘inspiration porn’ is where disabled people are portrayed as inspirational for simply being able to live with their disability... what’s so amazing about Chris is that people are just seeing him as a cool guy, not as a blind person, & that's the whole point” www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...

Interesting article about generative AI at university: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I am finding all this ‘Chris McCauseland is AMAZING because he is a good dancer AND blind’ stuff actually rather patronising and dangerously close to the dreaded inspiration porn. As a partially blind person I am cross that he is getting pity/tragedy votes #strictly

My profile picture shows a photo of a white middle aged woman smiling with thick glasses and unusual eyes; my banner image shows a colourful tactile / braille map zooming in on south-east England and Northern France including Paris and London

Current mood: incredibly pleased to be part of the Sensational Museum project: just had a team meeting and there is some great stuff happening: sensationalmuseum.org

I love that you can set BlueSky to require you to add alt text to images… but I can’t work out how to add #alttext to my banner image. Anyone know how?

A new episode of our #DARCI podcast on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries is now available! A really insightful interview with the wonderful @blindspothannah.bsky.social shows.acast.com/65942920c316...

Do you love museums? Do you define yourself as D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent? There's still a full weekend to prepare your application to become a Curating Visibility Fellow. You can find BSL, subtitled and Easy Read information about the roles on the website. screensouth.org/events/curat...

"Instead of constantly hearing about disability benefits scroungers maybe the government can actually start enforcing disability access laws." An interview with Anna Landre by Rachel Charlton-Dailey following a severe access fail. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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...

19 million @bsky.app users? Better make sure they all know about the handy alt text reminder! 🫡 Go to Settings > Accessibility and make sure "Require alt text before posting" is toggled on. We love that accessibility is such a priority here.

📢 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...)