Allison Gardner | |
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Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South | |
Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Jack Brereton |
Majority | 627 (1.5%) |
Personal details | |
Political party | Labour |
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Website | allisongardner |
Scientific career | |
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Thesis | Characterising and Predicting Amyloid Mutations in Proteins (2016) |
Doctoral advisor | Andrew Doig Simon Hubbard [3] |
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]
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]
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]
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