Mark Stuart is the Montague Burton Chair in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations at the University of Leeds, where he is also the Pro Dean for Research for the Faculty of Business. He is currently the co-director of the ESRC Digital Futures at Work (Digit) Research Centre, a collaborative centre led by the Universities of Sussex and Leeds. His research focuses on employment relations change, labour-management partnership, the political economy of skill formation, trade union innovation and the future of work, and has been published in journals such as the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Relations, Sociology and Work, Employment and Society, amongst others. A former President of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA), Mark is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.