Audrey Mullender, FRSA, AcSS, PhD, MA, BA, CQSW, has been Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford

Oxford

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, since April 2004.

Education and career

Mullender was educated at the University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield

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, as well as those of Bordeaux

University of Bordeaux

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, Nottingham

University of Nottingham

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 and Warwick

University of Warwick

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. From 1996 to 2004, she was Professor of Social Work

Social work

Social Work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or...

 and chair of three programmes at the University of Warwick. She is currently Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford.

She is a prolific writer, with over 120 publications in the social work field including 19 books. She is a member of several honorary and professional societies.

Mullender has carried out research on domestic violence

Domestic violence

Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence , is broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation...

, post-adoption

Adoption

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities from the original parent or parents...

 issues, and group work

Group work

Group work a form of cooperative learning. It aims to cater for individual differences, develop students' knowledge, generic skills and attitudes....

 theory.

Mullender's publications have included treatise

Treatise

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s on Self-directed Groupwork and Children Living with Domestic Violence.

Mullender has made several groundbreaking moves with and within Ruskin College; her mission to 'build on Ruskin's History whilst giving it a secure future' has made many significant improvements, and caused great controversy.

Mullender has accumulated over one million pounds in research grants.

Mullender discovered the principle of divergent economic politics, and was one of the masterminds to develop the learning through play scheme.