Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor
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Felix Driver is an historical geographer specialising in collections-based research and public engagement in the arts and humanities, including environmental humanities projects in partnership with museums, botanic gardens and visual artists. He was Principal Investigator of Mobile Museum, an AHRC research project on the mobility of biocultural collections, in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is an Honorary Research Associate at Kew and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Felix Driver is PI of the Plant Humanities project, an AHRC-funded strategic initiative in collaboration with Kew Gardens, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard) and the University of Padua. He is Co-Investigator of an AHRC project on the Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK in partnership with the British Library, Royal Geographical Society, the Wildlife Trusts and Friends of the Earth. He has led other research projects on collections and collecting, the visual culture of exploration, geography and empire, and imperial cities. He has co-supervised numerous collaborative PhD studentships with the Royal Geographical Society, Kew Gardens, the British Library, the Science Museum, the National Maritime Museum and the V&A. He has worked with visual artists, including Helen Scalway and Kathy Prendergast.
Felix Driver has taught courses in historical geography, cultural geography, modern British history, Victorian Studies and imperial history. Currently he teaches a final-year option on Geography, Museums and Collections (GG3065). He also teaches in the MA in Cultural Geography (Research) and MSc in Global Futures.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Butler, T. (PI), Driver, F. (CoI) & Mould, O. (CoI)
1/09/22 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
Molina, D. (Fellow) & Driver, F. (Mentor)
1/10/22 → 30/09/25
Project: Research
Driver, F. (PI) & Cornish, C. (CoI)
Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC
11/12/20 → 10/09/21
Project: Research
Driver, F. (Mentor) & Lamego, M. (Fellow)
24/04/23 → 6/09/23
Project: Research
Driver, F. (PI), Cornish, C. (Researcher) & Nesbitt, M. (CoI)
Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC
1/01/17 → 31/12/19
Project: Other
Driver, F. (Participant)
Activity: Membership › Membership of research network
Driver, F. (Participant)
Activity: Membership › Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
Driver, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Driver, F. (Participant)
Activity: Membership › Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
Molina, D. (Speaker) & Driver, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Driver, F. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Driver, F. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Driver, F. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Driver, F. (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Election to learned society