Allison Gardner

• University of Kent (BSc)
• Open University (MSc)
• University of Leeds (PGCE)
• University of Manchester (PhD)

Allison Gardner MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 July 2024
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]

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]}

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]

References

1. Allison Gardner publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. Allison Gardner publications from Europe PubMed Central
3. Gardner, Allison (2016). Characterising and Predicting Amyloid Mutations in Proteins. manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC   1065240845. ProQuest   1865298954.
4. Anon (2024). "Stoke-on-Trent South | General Election 2024". sky.com. Sky News . Retrieved 5 July 2024.
5. Allison Gardner on LinkedIn
6. Allison Gardner's ORCID   0000-0002-8483-121X
7. allisongardner.co.uk

External links

• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Voting record at Public Whip
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou