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 has led AHRC research projects and strategic initiatives 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 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 was 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 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 Kathy Prendergast, Helen Scalway and Perdita Phillips.

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.