Mia Kellmer Pringle

Mia Lilly Kellmer Pringle
Born(1920-06-20)June 20, 1920
Vienna
DiedFebruary 21, 1983(1983-02-21) (aged 62)
London
Spouse(s)William Joseph Somerville Pringle (1946-1962);
William Leonard Hooper
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(m. 1969)​
ChildrenDavid, Rose
Academic background
Alma materBirkbeck College
ThesisA study of Doll's social maturity scale as applied to a representative sample of British children between the age of 6 and 8 years[1] (1950)
Academic work
DisciplineChild Psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Birmingham

Mia Lilly Kellmer Pringle (20 June 1920 – 21 February 1983) was an Austrian-British child psychologist. She was the founding director of the British National Children's Bureau, where she oversaw the influential National Child Development Study. Over the course of her career, Pringle advocated for the needs and rights of children both through her research-informed policy work and in her many books and articles about early childhood development.[2]

  1. ^ Vallender, Ian; Fogelman, Ken (1987). Putting Children First: A Volume in Honor of Mia Kellmer Pringle. London; New York: Falmer Press. pp. 175–183. ISBN 1850002185.
  2. ^ Tizard, Barbara (2004). "Pringle, Mia Lilly Kellmer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (published 2007).