Biography
Felicity Parker is both Content and Communications Offer and Tutorial Course Co-ordinator at the Faraday Institute. Felicity originally read Classics at the University of Cambridge, specialising in linguistics, textual criticism and Ancient Greek mathematics, before transferring to History and Philosophy of Science for an MSci. Her principal academic interests are ancient and early modern mathematics and natural philosophy, in particular the mathematisation of shipbuilding in the early modern period. Outside of academia, Felicity enjoys spending time outdoors, either gardening or messing about in boats; when the weather is too inclement for either, she turns her hand to any number of crafts including crochet and dressmaking.
