Allison Clare Elizabeth Gardner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South since 2024.

[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.