Allison Gardner

Allison Clare Elizabeth Gardner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South since 2024. She gained the seat from Jack Brereton, a member of the Conservative Party.^[4][5]

Allison Gardner MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 July 2024
Preceded by	Jack Brereton
Majority	627 (1.5%)
Personal details
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Kent (BSc) Open University (MSc) University of Leeds (PGCE) University of Manchester (PhD)
Website	allisongardner.co.uk
Scientific career
Fields	AI ethics Data science Algorithmic bias Women in computing Computing education[1]
Institutions	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence University of Keele[1][2]
Thesis	Characterising and Predicting Amyloid Mutations in Proteins (2016)
Doctoral advisor	Andrew Doig Simon Hubbard[3]

Education

Gardner was educated at the University of Kent (BSc), the Open University (MSc) and the University of Leeds (PGCE).^[2][6][5] 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.^[3]

Career

Gardner works with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as a Senior Scientific Adviser for Artificial Intelligence.^[6] Previously, she taught science and personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) in secondary schools. She was employed as a lecturer at Keele University where she led the degree apprenticeship programme in data science.^[7] She has research interests in the ethics of artificial intelligence, data science, algorithmic bias, women in computing and computing education.^[1]