Richard G. Alexander is a lecturer in the Willem Pompe Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Utrecht, holding a Bachelor in Criminology from Manchester Metropolitan University (cum laude), an MA in Global Criminology from Utrecht University (cum laude), and an MA in Social Research Methods from the University of Kent (cum laude). 

Richard is conducting doctoral research that examines the narrative meanings being ascribed to psychedelic drug use in non-clinical contexts.  As a researcher Richard is principally interested in drugs, drug use, and drug users, and the culturally constructed meanings surrounding them.