Allison Clare Elizabeth Gardner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South since

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. She gained the seat from Jack Brereton, a member of the Conservative Party.

Education

Gardner was educated at the

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(BSc), the

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(MSc) and the

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(PGCE).Allison Gardner's She completed her

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bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and Bioinformatics software, software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, ...

at the

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in 2016 where her research supervised by Andrew Doig and Simon Hubbard characterised and predicted

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s in

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Career

Gardner works with the

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as a Senior Scientific Adviser for

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

. Previously, she taught

science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

and

personal, social, health and economic education Personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) is the school curriculum subject in England that teaches young people, through all key stages, knowledge and skills for life during and after education. PSHE education covers education on pe ...

(PSHE) in secondary schools. She was employed as a

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where she led the

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programme in

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, stru ...

. She has research interests in the

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and computing education.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people UK MPs 2024–present Women computer scientists Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Alumni of the University of Kent {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub