Allison Gardner

British politician
Allison Gardner
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Stoke-on-Trent South
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byJack Brereton
Majority627 (1.5%)
Personal details
Born
Allison Clare Elizabeth Gardner
Political partyLabour
Alma mater
  • University of Kent (BSc)
  • Open University (MSc)
  • University of Leeds (PGCE)
  • University of Manchester (PhD)
Websiteallisongardner.co.uk Edit this at Wikidata
Scientific career
Fields
  • AI ethics
  • Data science
  • Algorithmic bias
  • Women in computing
  • Computing education[1]
Institutions
ThesisCharacterising and Predicting Amyloid Mutations in Proteins (2016)
Doctoral advisorAndrew 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. ^ a b c Allison Gardner publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Allison Gardner publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. ^ a b 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. ^ a b Allison Gardner on LinkedIn Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ a b Allison Gardner's ORCID 0000-0002-8483-121X
  7. ^ allisongardner.co.uk Edit this at Wikidata
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