Dr Sumona Mukhuty

Dr Sumona Mukhuty is a Reader in Leadership, OB and HRM at Leeds Business School and Research Cluster Lead for Leadership, Management and Business Education. She is an experienced academic who has held leadership and management positions at several universities and external learned societies. Prior to joining Leeds Beckett University, she worked at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and University of Hull. She currently serves as Chair of the Organisational Psychology Special Interest Group at the British Academy of Management. She has also worked as the Work in Small Enterprise research platform lead within the Decent Work Centre and as Subject Group Head at MMU. In these roles, she has successfully run research events, organised conferences, sandpit events and collaborated with colleagues on research publications.

Sumona is particularly interested in developing interdisciplinary research. Her research interests straddle multiple disciplines including leadership, human resource management, individual differences, emotions in the workplace on one hand and operational research like industry 4.0, AI, and humanitarian missions on the other hand. Furthermore, she has a particular interest in research on Decent Work, UN Sustainable Development Goals, and small and medium enterprise. She has also conducted research on Leadership in the National Health Service for which she was awarded the Northern Leadership Fellowship. Her research has been published in high-impact journals like International Journal of HRM, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Journal of Cleaner Production. She also regularly reviews for various journals.

Sumona has a strong interest in pedagogic research, and research-led teaching. She worked as Education Lead at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), a post she has held for the last 5 years. In this role she was responsible for leading and supporting colleagues and students on all aspects of learning, teaching, and assessment. She has been instrumental in designing and setting up various programmes including Level 7 and Level 6 apprenticeship programmes in Business and Health, and various CIPD/CMI/ABP accredited PG and UG programmes. She also led a faculty-wide scheme implementing peer-assisted learning on programmes across the MMU Faculty of Business & Law. Prior to taking on the role of Education Lead, she was also Head of the Strategy subject group. In addition, she was the PGCTLHE programme director at University of Hull. She has also worked on EQUIS and AACSB accreditation applications at MMU and Hull University.

Sumona's contributions have been recognised through various awards and nominations including the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Award, BAM Research Paper Award, and MMU Outstanding Leadership Award.