Berry Mayall (c. 1936–2021) was a British academic and sociologist.
In 1958, she graduated in English from Newnham College in the University of Cambridge.
[1] She worked at the Institute of Education (now part of the University College London) as a childhood studies academic researcher[1] and set up the Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights masters' degree at the university.
[2] She argued that modern Western societies often marginalised input from children and adolescents,[3] and saw children as oppressed within society.
[1] She also noted the connections between the children's rights movement and the early 20th-century feminist movement, especially in the latter's aims to improve the health and education of primary school-aged children.