Joseph Lewis

Joseph Lewis holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Geology from the University of Plymouth (UK) and a MSc in Geographical Information Science from the University of Leicester. He is the recipient of the second place prize from the Royal Geographical Society GIScience Research Group for his MSc Dissertation (2017) as well as holding the best paper prize at GISRUK (2018) from the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. For his PhD, he will use simulation-based inference methods to explore the factors that may have dictated the emergence and evolution of Roman road networks in Roman Britain and how this affected the social, economic, and political organisation of territories. Furthermore, he will analyse the spatial and social characteristics of the road networks in order assess how resilient the networks are to internal and external change, as well as how the road networks facilitated cultural change.