Mia kellmer pringle biography channel

Austrian-British child psychologist

Mia Lilly Kellmer Pringle (20 June – 21 February ) was an Austrian-British child psychologist.

Mia kellmer pringle biography channel 7

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]

Early life and education

Mia Kellmer Pringle was born in Vienna to Samuel Kellmer and Sophie Sobel.

Her younger brother Chanan Kella was her only sibling. Samuel Kellmer was a successful timber wholesaler, and the family was comfortably-middle class. Their circumstances changed swiftly after the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in , and Pringle and her mother were forced to flee to London as refugees. This was a traumatic experience of poverty and displacement: Pringl