@alisonfe.bsky.social
Psychologist turned Museum Studies researcher. passionate about museums, access & inclusion. Co-I on @SensationalMuseum. PI on W-ICAD. Co-editor of The Museum Accessibility Spectrum. Fulbright-Smithsonian scholar. She/her.
W-ICAD's @alisonfe.bsky.social describes being shortlisted as "recognition of the power and impact of co-creation, and the ways in which we can work towards richer inclusive museum experiences." Visit w-icad.org to find out the impact that W-ICAD can have in your museum!
03.06.2025 09:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Jess Thom, a white, wheelchair using woman looking into the camera with a serious expression. She is wearing a blue and green hoodie, black padded gloves and is pictured in from of a brick wall
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
23.05.2025 07:43 — 👍 263 🔁 196 💬 19 📌 81This is really important, not least considering our discussion yesterday @blindspothannah.bsky.social and @ihereyounowthis.bsky.social about the need to recognise critical disability studies as a discipline in #AHRC funding applications.
22.05.2025 08:26 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0If you have completed the W-ICAD training w-icad.org/about-the-on... come join us at our facilitators network event!
19.05.2025 21:59 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Join us at the #AccessInMuseums Conference in Leeds this morning - Hannah, @charlotteslark.bsky.social and @sophievohra.bsky.social will be in the Thoresby room from 11.15am today (Thursday 20th March) talking about 'Running an Accessible Workshop'. We'd love to see you there.
20.03.2025 10:00 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We’re looking for people to take part in a short survey about light in theatres. If you’re someone who's experienced issues with light in the theatre, please fill out this short survey. There are 8 questions shown as text & pictures, more here: www.touretteshero.com/2025/02/10/l...
24.02.2025 09:13 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
We're excited to launch the next phase of our #LightMaps project, exploring how light can be a barrier for disabled & neurodivergent people in the theatre. If you've got perspectives you're up for sharing do complete our short survey. Spread the word too www.touretteshero.com/2025/02/10/l...
11.02.2025 21:06 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 5Esther’s brilliant chapter in my new edited book describes a sector leading project - Curating for Change - which provides paid placements to support Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people to develop a career as a museum curator. Find out more below!
23.01.2025 22:55 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Submit a proposal for Conference 2025 📩
We're looking for proposals for bold, innovative sessions for #Museums2025 that bring us together to find solutions to the critical issues of the day.
Read the guidelines and submit yours by 20 January 👇
A starter pack of schools or departments of psychology from around the world.
Please share, encourage your school/dept social-media person to join up, and feel free to suggest additions...
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go.bsky.app/FmgYgVj
Happy Birthday! Wishing you a fabulous next year of life 😊
08.01.2025 18:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A very tall Christmas tree lights a large hall with a vaulted ceiling, bathing it it a white lights. Yoga mats are laid out on the floor, each with someone seated on it.
A photo so smiling people outside, with Tudor buildings in the background.
The last University of Westminster PhD residential writing retreat of the year, at the Abbey Sutton Courtenay. A magical combination of relaxation, productivity and conversation (with yoga and walks).
18.12.2024 21:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Save 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
Very happy to have been invited to co-author a blog for the #BritishMuseum showcasing some #DisabilityHistory stories from the Museum's ancient Egyptian collections. This forms part of a continuing collaboration investing stories of disability at the BM.
www.britishmuseum.org/blog/eight-h...
A blog featuring my wonderful Curating Visibility Colleague Anahita.
Well worth a read.
www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/fight-f...
Hope she is feeling better today.
30.11.2024 10:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Please do get in touch if you are interested. We are actively seeking to recruit people with lived experience of deafness and/or deaf culture and BSL, ASL or International Sign. We will have a BSL summary of the project available on 4th December! Deadline 6th January, so please do get in touch!
29.11.2024 17:55 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to announce a funded PhD studentship for the project: Signing Sound: Deaf Gain within Inclusive Co-created Audio Descriptions of Museum Experiences.
With @aud2526.bsky.social @johnnyravo.bsky.social @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social @sim-manchester.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW721/p...
Okay FINE, we'll share our photo of the Deal Man. He seems to be appearing all over the place? He wandered in front of the camera when we were taking a photo of the building the other day. Rude.
29.11.2024 13:37 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Digital Day at Screen South! #CuratingVisibility fellows explored Green Screen, VR, AR & immersive soundscapes. Thanks to Manuel Vason from Studio Radar for sharing his insights on virtual environments. We hope to amplify disability perspectives through digital innovation in museum collections.
28.11.2024 11:31 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Portrait poster for the exhibition Mapping an Uneven Path: Stories of Health and Disability at Verulamium. In the foreground an illustration of a Roman man with a bandaged leg and walking staff walks along a jagged path. In the background, several other illustrated characters - such as a doctor, a mother and child - stand behind a green mist. Some butterflies float around the image.
A tabletop case containing a number of museum artefacts and labels. They include a small metal votive foot, some coins depicting the Roman goddess Salus, and a 20th century prayer card from a psychiatric hospital.
Two portrait panels on a wall with colourful illustrations. One depicts her mother handing her child to a wet-nurse. The other depicts two Roman veterans; one with a prosthetic arm, the other with scars along his back.
Label in a display case showing some Roman bath tiles. The label is written by a disabled person, and talks about physical access to the baths and body image in the Roman world.
Come visit my current temporary exhibition:
MAPPING AN UNEVEN PATH: STORIES OF HEALTH AND DISABILITY AT VERULAMIUM
15th November 2024 - 23rd February 2025
Explore what archaeology can tell us about Roman ideas about health and disability.
www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/map...
A dark purple logo for Curating Visibility set on a pale pink background
Curating Visibility fellow Karl. Karl has dark brown hair and wears glasses. He is wearing a black jacket. He is looking at a large Anglo-Saxon grave slab featuring a cross with runes that has been mounted on a wall.
A dark silver coloured metal pilgrim badge of a crucifixion scene.
Anne Pratt’s book ‘Wild Flowers of the Year’ open on a plate of coloured flower illustrations opposite text. The book is placed on top of another book by Anne Pratt titled ‘Things of the Sea Coast’.
Co-Producers with lived experience of d/Deafness, disability and/or Neurodiversity wanted!
Help us explore the disability stories of Dover's past and present them in a multi-sensory way with innovative digital technology!
More details⬇️
www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Exhibitions/...
