Helen Webley-Brown is a Research Officer working on Phelan US Centre Affiliate, Professor Lauren Sukin's projects that examine the effects of polarisation on US foreign policy and nuclear strategy. Helen recently completed her MS in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), specialising in American Politics and Quantitative Methods. Before this, she completed a BA in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Helen is a proud alumna of the US-UK Fulbright Commission's Sutton Trust US Programme.