Meet Sophia

One of our Different Thinkers with ADHD and autism.

I have experience across visitor services, events, museums, heritage, and community engagement through a mix of paid and voluntary roles.

ADHD

  • Creativity

  • Innovation

  • Problem-solving

  • Adaptability

  • Hyperfocus

  • Initiative

  • Resilience

  • Big-picture thinking

Autism

  • Attention to detail

  • Analytical thinking

  • Accuracy

  • Reliability

  • Pattern recognition

  • Focus

  • Logical thinking

  • Integrity

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Summary
I enjoy creating welcoming, inclusive experiences for the public while supporting projects through administration, research, communications, supervision, and event planning.

Skills

  • Fluent in Microsoft Office

  • Can operate DaVinci Resolve and Affinity Suite

  • Grammatically literate; can proofread and edit

  • Can understand and speak Castilian Spanish

  • Palaeography and Transcription

  • CALM archives management software

Work Experience

January 2025-present: Co-host at the Lewisham Neurodivergent Social at Ignition Brewery.

Duties include visitor welcome, supervision, promotion, leadership and administration alongside hosts, WhatsApp chat moderation, event planning, and engaging with members of varying support needs levels. Jointly responsible for successfully planning and implementing a trip to send members to a popular music festival, which included surveying for interest and supervision during the event. Unpaid.

September 2021-April 2022: Work experience with Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust.

Duties included research for the Woolwich Heritage Action Zone and writing, recording, conducting interviews for, and editing an informative video for the Trust’s official website. Unpaid.


February-May 2021: Work experience with Nutkhut.

Duties included research, compiling spreadsheet data, and writing and proofreading promotional material. Unpaid.


October 2019-present: Visitor Assistant with Artisan People. Venues include Museum of London, Camden Roundhouse, Westminster Abbey, etc.

Duties include visitor welcome, scanning tickets, monitoring facilities, creche supervision, ushering, retail and museum opening/closing procedures. Paid.


August 2018-present: Volunteer at Bethlem Museum of the Mind.

Duties include visitor hosting, tour guiding, gallery maintenance, research, archival cataloguing, closed captioning, school trip supervision, assisting in archive outreach events and writing articles for the official website. Unpaid.

June 2016-September 2018: Member of Horniman Museum Youth Panel. Organised events where members of the public attended performances and activities. Tasks included leaflet and mascot design and distribution, activity planning and risk assessment. Unpaid.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2023, April 2024: Conducted preservation surveys (Northeast Document Conservation Center, NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation) on Bethlem Museum of the Mind.

January-April 2023: Change Minds Project.

Developed family history and palaeography skills.

ACCOLADES

November 2020: Highly Commended for London Heritage Volunteer Award - Youth Category for performance at Bethlem Museum of the Mind.

Education

MLitt Archives and Records Management completed at University of Dundee in December 2025.

Studied the fundamentals of archival practice, archive theory, the life cycle and continuum models, appraisal theory, conservation, laws and regulations, management of active records, digital preservation, and palaeography. Completed dissertation on the relationship between artists and archives professionals

BA with Hons. in History completed at University of Greenwich in April 2022.

Studied the Ottoman Empire, Early Modern England, historical film, research and presentation skills, and undertook two work placements. Awarded First Class.

A Levels completed in Langley Park School for Girls in June 2018

  • Psychology: B

  • Sociology: A


  • Spanish: C