Alison Docherty

Professor Alison Docherty was sought out by Martha Jones following the Year That Never Was. Martha approached her in a park and gave her a bouquet of flowers. The flowers were in response to events in the alternate timeline, where her counterpart had betrayed Martha in return for information on the whereabouts of her son. Professor Docherty was confused as to why she had been given flowers by a woman who - by her understanding - she had never met.

She enjoyed Countdown, though she preferred its original host over their immediate successors, Des and Des. She wasn't a fan of Bill Gates. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)

Behind the scenes
Though no scripted reference is made to her affiliated university, Docherty is shown wearing the scarf of Newnham College, Cambridge.