Audrey Mullender is a British academic who was Principal of Ruskin College Oxford, from April 2004 to November 2013.

Mullender was educated at the University of Sheffield as well as the University of Bordeaux, University_of_Nottingham and University of Warwick where she obtained a PhD and a DLitt. From 1996 to 2004, she was Professor of Social Work and chair of the School of Health and Social Studies and the Faculty of Social Studies and director of the Centre for the Study of Safety and Well-being at the University of Warwick.

She is a prolific writer, with over 120 publications in the social work field including 20 books.