Allison Gardner

Allison Clare Elizabeth Gardner is a Labour [Party (UK)|British Labour Party] politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South since 2024 [United Kingdom general election|2024]. She gained the seat from Jack Brereton, a member of the Conservative Party.

Education

Gardner was educated at the University of Kent, the Open University and the University of Leeds. She completed her PhD in bioinformatics at the University of Manchester in 2016 where her research supervised by Andrew Doig and Simon Hubbard characterised and predicted amyloid mutations in proteins.

Career

Gardner works with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as a Senior Scientific Adviser for Artificial Intelligence. Previously, she taught science and personal, [social, health and economic education] in secondary schools. She was employed as a lecturer at Keele University where she led the degree apprenticeship programme in data science. She has research interests in the ethics of artificial intelligence, data science, algorithmic bias, women in computing and computing education.