Alex’s work spans sociology, affect theory, and critical drug studies, employing ethnographic methods to explore the intersections of sex, drugs, trauma, and memory. Their PhD thesis (titled ‘Fucking and Being Fucked: Towards a Sexual Ethics of Sex on Drugs’) developed a novel approach for considering the ethical dimensions of sex involving drugs, seeking to provide an alternative to conventional consent-based models. Alex’s current research focuses on community-led approaches to sexual violence prevention and drug harm reduction in London’s queer nightlife scene. Alex co-hosts a monthly radio programme (The People & Dancefloors Radio Show) on Hackney-based community station Netil Radio, which is part of a wider participatory action research project documenting ordinary people’s narratives of drug taking and dance culture. Prior to joining the LSE, Alex was a lecturer in criminology at Birkbeck, University of London, where they taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules in contemporary sociological and criminological theory, social research methods, drugs and society, and the regulation of sex & sexuality.