Julie Mennell
{{Short description|Vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Julie Mennell
| image = Julie Mennell University of Sunderland Graduate Internship Scheme Celebration Event 25-Nov-2013 at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland (cropped).jpg
| alt =
| caption = Mennell in 2013
| office = Vice Chancellor of the University of Cumbria
| term_start = 1 August 2016
| term_end =
| predecessor = Peter Strike
| successor =
| birth_name = Julie Sowerby
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|02|04|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England
| education = University of Leeds (BSc)
Teesside University (PhD)
}}
Julie Mennell ({{nee}} Sowerby; born 4 February 1970) is an English academic and former police officer who has been the vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria since 2016.
Biography
Mennell was born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, on 4 February 1970, the daughter of Richard Sowerby and Linda Marsden.{{cite news |title=Mennell, Prof. Julie |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-288264 |access-date=3 April 2021 |work=Who's Who |date=1 December 2020|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U288264 |isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }} After receiving the Bachelor of Science degree in physics and mathematics at the University of Leeds in 1992, she accepted a job with the police force in Lancaster, Lancashire, and married John Mennell a few weeks later.{{cite news |title=Julie Mennell – the University of Cumbria's new vice-chancellor |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/julie-mennell-the-university-of-cumbria-s-new-vice-chancellor-6999052 |access-date=3 April 2021 |work=Lancashire Life |date=4 January 2017}} After several years as a police officer, she returned to education and studied applied physics at Teesside University, where she received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1997. After her PhD, Mennell became a lecturer at Teesside specializing in forensic science, and was named as the director of the university's Centre for Forensic Investigation in 2002.
She became the dean of the School of Applied Sciences at Northumbria University in 2006, and deputy vice chancellor (academic) at the University of Sunderland in 2010. On 1 August 2016, Mennell became the vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria, succeeding the retiring Peter Strike. She was formally inaugurated on 24 November 2016, and is the first woman to hold the position at the University of Cumbria.{{cite news |title=University names new vice chancellor |url=https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/14936982.university-names-new-vice-chancellor/ |access-date=3 April 2021 |work=The Westmorland Gazette |date=30 November 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Pattison |first1=Kelly |title=New vice-chancellor for University of Cumbria |url=https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/16701774.new-vice-chancellor-for-university-of-cumbria/ |access-date=3 April 2021 |work=News and Star |date=25 February 2016}} As vice chancellor, Mennell has overseen the ongoing development of a new university campus in Barrow-in-Furness, in partnership with Lancaster University,{{cite news |last1=Ovens |first1=Eleanor |title=Universities of Lancaster and Cumbria join forces to build campus in Barrow |url=https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/19103840.this-will-widen-opportunities-young-people---university-campus-plans-barrow-welcomed/ |access-date=3 April 2021 |work=The Mail |date=20 February 2021}} as well as the conversion of Carlisle Citadel into a new campus for the University of Cumbria.{{cite news |last1=Parsons |first1=Emily |title=£50m plans to turn Carlisle citadels into new university campus unveiled |url=https://www.in-cumbria.com/news/18448430.50m-plans-turn-carlisle-citadels-new-university-campus-unveiled/ |access-date=3 April 2021 |work=In-Cumbria Magazine |date=14 May 2020}}
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Category:Academics of Northumbria University
Category:Academics of Teesside University
Category:Academics of the University of Cumbria
Category:Academics of the University of Sunderland
Category:Alumni of Teesside University
Category:Alumni of the University of Leeds
Category:British forensic scientists
Category:British police officers
Category:British women police officers