Dr Hilllary Collins
- Research Associate, Research Associate (General Practice & Primary Care)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4628Biography
Hilllary Collins is a Research Associate in General Practice and Primary Care, firstly working on an evaluation of social prescribing link workers in primary care, then on Patient Research Partner involvement in, and implementation of findings from, the HIPPOCRATES project about psoriatic arthritis.
Hilllary has previously worked on research projects related to systems change in mental health and wellbeing services, perinatal and infant mental health stigma, protection of children from violence, primary care training for medical undergraduates and the co-location of welfare advice hubs in primary care.
Hilllary undertook a PhD at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow titled: "Maternal perceptions of 'parental determinism', media representations of parenting, and how these impact on their wellbeing", completed in 2022. The PhD project ranged across the subject areas of parenting culture studies, medical sociology and media and communication studies and used methods including qualitative media content analysis, thematic analysis of interviews with mothers and scoping literature reviewing.
Before that, Hilllary worked in administrative roles in applied health research and higher education and as a community nurse.
Research interests
- The sociology of health and illness
- Health services research
- Parenting culture studies
- Media representations of health, illness and identity
- Audience reception studies
Publications
2025
Donaghy, E. et al. (2025) Mapping variation in delivery models and data recording of primary care social prescribing link worker (SPLW) schemes across five regions in England and Scotland. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2025, 9243925. (doi: 10.1155/hsc/9243925)
Collins, Hilllary, Wight, Daniel 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-3110 and Hilton, Shona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152
(2025)
Mothers’ endorsement of the ideals and expected practices of parental determinism.
Families, Relationships and Societies,
(doi: 10.1332/20467435Y2025D000000055)
(Early Online Publication)
2023
Davidson, Jennifer, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Collins, Hilllary and Brown, Aaron
(2023)
Complexities of protecting children from violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: providers' and policymakers' best practices, innovations and challenges in 12 countries.
Child Abuse and Neglect, 146,
106480.
(doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106480)
(PMID:37801758)
2021
Collins, Hillary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4628
(2021)
The expanding and contracting universe of television images’ influence on the British imaginary in the time of a global pandemic.
Sociological Review Magazine,
3 Aug.
(doi: 10.51428/tsr.vwdf6482)
Collins, Hilllary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4628
(2021)
Early Motherhood in Digital Societies. Ideals, Anxieties, Ties of the Perinatal. Das, R.London, New York: Routledge. 2020. Hardback £96, E-Book £29.59. ISBN 978-1-138-05257-4.
Sociology of Health and Illness, 43(4),
pp. 1071-1072.
(doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13268)[Book Review]
2019
Collins, Hilllary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4628
(2019)
Parenting and the media.
[Audio]
2017
Woodhead, Charlotte, Collins, Hillliary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4628, Lomas, Robin and Raine, Rosalind
(2017)
Co-located welfare advice in general practice: a realist qualitative study.
Health and Social Care in the Community, 25(6),
pp. 1794-1804.
(doi: 10.1111/hsc.12453)
(PMID:28569395)
Articles
Donaghy, E. et al. (2025) Mapping variation in delivery models and data recording of primary care social prescribing link worker (SPLW) schemes across five regions in England and Scotland. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2025, 9243925. (doi: 10.1155/hsc/9243925)
Collins, Hilllary, Wight, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-3110 and Hilton, Shona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152
(2025)
Mothers’ endorsement of the ideals and expected practices of parental determinism.
Families, Relationships and Societies,
(doi: 10.1332/20467435Y2025D000000055)
(Early Online Publication)
Davidson, Jennifer, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Collins, Hilllary and Brown, Aaron
(2023)
Complexities of protecting children from violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: providers' and policymakers' best practices, innovations and challenges in 12 countries.
Child Abuse and Neglect, 146,
106480.
(doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106480)
(PMID:37801758)
Collins, Hillary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4628
(2021)
The expanding and contracting universe of television images’ influence on the British imaginary in the time of a global pandemic.
Sociological Review Magazine,
3 Aug.
(doi: 10.51428/tsr.vwdf6482)
Woodhead, Charlotte, Collins, Hillliary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4628, Lomas, Robin and Raine, Rosalind
(2017)
Co-located welfare advice in general practice: a realist qualitative study.
Health and Social Care in the Community, 25(6),
pp. 1794-1804.
(doi: 10.1111/hsc.12453)
(PMID:28569395)
Book Reviews
Collins, Hilllary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4628
(2021)
Early Motherhood in Digital Societies. Ideals, Anxieties, Ties of the Perinatal. Das, R.London, New York: Routledge. 2020. Hardback £96, E-Book £29.59. ISBN 978-1-138-05257-4.
Sociology of Health and Illness, 43(4),
pp. 1071-1072.
(doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13268)[Book Review]
Audio
Collins, Hilllary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-4628
(2019)
Parenting and the media.
[Audio]
Professional activities & recognition
Editorial boards
- 2024 - 2027: Sociology of Health and Illness (Book Reviews Co-Editor)
Professional & learned societies
- 2018 - 2025: Elected Committee Member, British Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Group
- 2025 - 2027: Medical Sociology Stream Convenor, British Sociological Association
