Alice is the President of the IDC Governance and Finance Committee. She is also a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York.

Alice gained her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the National University in Singapore (NUS). She also holds an M.Soc.Sci. (Sociology) from NUS, a PGCert in Occupational Psychology from the British Psychological Society, and BA (Hons) in Management Studies and Psychology from the University of Leeds.

Alice has been a Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Melbourne (funded by the Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award), and a Southeast Asia Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford (funded by the Refugee Studies Centre).