Mia Kellmer Pringle
Mia Lilly Kellmer Pringle | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 June 1920 |
| Died | 21 February 1983 (aged 62) |
| Spouse(s) | William Joseph Somerville Pringle (1946-1962);
William Leonard Hooper
(m. 1969) |
| Children | David, Rose |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Birkbeck College |
| Thesis | A study of Doll's social maturity scale as applied to a representative sample of British children between the age of 6 and 8 years (1950) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Child Psychology |
| Institutions | University 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.