Allison Gardner Explained

Allison Gardner
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office:Member of Parliament
for Stoke-on-Trent South
Term Start:4 July 2024
Majority:627 (1.5%)
Predecessor:Jack Brereton
Party:Labour
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Thesis Title:Characterising and Predicting Amyloid Mutations in Proteins
Thesis Url:https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/characterising-and-predicting-amyloid-mutations-in-proteins
Thesis Year:2016
Doctoral Advisor:Andrew Doig
Simon Hubbard

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.[1]

Education

Gardner was educated at the University of Kent (BSc), the Open University (MSc) and the University of Leeds (PGCE).[2] 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.[2] 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. She has research interests in the ethics of artificial intelligence, data science, algorithmic bias, women in computing and computing education.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stoke-on-Trent South General Election 2024 . 5 July 2024 . Sky News. sky.com. Anon. 2024.
  2. Allison Gardner's
  3. PhD. Allison. Gardner. 2016. Characterising and Predicting Amyloid Mutations in Proteins. manchester.ac.uk. University of Manchester. . 1065240845 .