Richard is the Deputy Director and Head of Academic Programs at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, Melbourne, Australia. Richard is also Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University. Richard is a Fellow of the Faculty of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology within the RCPA and is the chief examiner for the Monash University Master of Forensic Medicine. 

Richard’s research interests include; forensic medical aspects of violence against women and children, post-mortem CT interpretation, personal identification using advanced imaging techniques, improving the evidence base in Forensic Medicine and Science, and the application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to the analysis of forensic medical and scientific evidence.