Alice completed her undergraduate degree at Newcastle University in 2016, where she had studied a BA in Politics that included a semester of studying at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Following her undergraduate, Alice joined the ICCS as an MSc student in Global Cooperation and Security. Whilst with the ICCS from 2016-2017, Alice competed in the University’s delegation to the International Model NATO Conference in Washington DC and also undertook and intensive module at The University of Delhi, India, in South Asian security. During the MSc, Alice completed her masters dissertation on the declining relationship between ‘The West’ and Russia under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Wheeler, who is now supervising her on her 1+3 ESRC collaborative studentship with the ICCS and BASIC.