Principal lecturer, School of Social Science, Kingston University.
Research
Publications:
Collins S, Eyre A and Hornsby-Smith MP (1996) Young People's Beliefs: Public and Private Dimensions of the Sacred Occasional Papers in Sociology and Social Research No 7 Department of Sociology University of Surrey.
Collins S (1999) 'Immanent faith: young people in late modernity' in Francis LJ (ed) Sociology and the Curriculum: A theological perspective London: Cassell.
Collins S (1999) 'Der immanente Glaube der Jugend in der Spätmoderne' in Friesl C and Polak R (Hrsg.) Die Suche nach der religiösen Aura, Wien: Verlag Zeitpunkt pp210-223.
Collins S (2000) 'Faith, Ethics, Young People and Late Modernity' in Flanagan K and Jupp P (eds) Virtue Ethics and Sociology: Issues of modernity and religion Basingstoke: Macmillan. Pp 91-103.
Collins S (2000) 'Spirituality and Youth' in Percy M (ed) Calling Time: Religion and Change at the Turn of the Millennium Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. Pp. 221-237.
Collins S (2001) 'Religion and Youth' in NJ Smelser and Paul B Baltes (eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford: Pergamon, pp 13051-13054.
Collins S (2001) 'Research Methods Project', Learning to Research, Volume 2: Examples of Practice, SSP2000: Teaching and Learning Network for Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield. pp 133-139.
Collins S and Hornsby-Smith MP (2002) 'The Rise and Fall of the YCW in England.' Journal of Contemporary Religion 17 (1), 2002, pp 87-100.
Collins S (2003) 'English Christianity, Modern' in Houlden, L (ed) Jesus in History, Thought and Culture: An encyclopedia, Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, pp235-240.
Collins S (2004) 'The Sociological Context' in Mayo B with Collins S and Savage S Ambiguous Evangelism, London: SPCK.
Collins S (2005) 'Resources and People: Sociological Strand' in Cameron H, Davis D, Richter P and Ward F (eds) Studying Local Churches, London:SCM.
Savage S, Collins-Mayo S and Mayo B (2006) Making Sense of Generation Y, London: Church House Publishing.
Nash S, Collins-Mayo S and Mayo B (2007) 'Raising Christian Consciousness: Creating Place', Journal of Youth and Theology, Vol 6, No 2, pp 41-59.
Collins-Mayo S (2008) 'Young People's Spirituality and the Meaning of Prayer' in Day A (ed) Religion and the Individual, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Collins-Mayo S (2010) 'Secularization and Desecularization in Europe and North America' in Daniel M Patte (ed) Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Cambridge University Press.
Vincett G and Collins-Mayo S (2010) '(Dis)Engagements with Christianity Amongst Young People in England and Scotland', Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Vol 1, pp 219-250. 4
Collins-Mayo S and Dandelion P (eds) (2010) Religion and Youth, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Collins-Mayo S, Mayo B and Nash S with Cocksworth C (2010) The Faith of Generation Y, London: Church House Publishing.
Collins-Mayo S (2010) 'Young People, Youth Culture and Christianity', in The English Parish Church Through the Centuries Interactive DVD, University of York.
Choosing my religion: Young people's personal Christian knowledge' in Elisabeth Arweck and Mathew Guest (forthcoming), Religion and Knowledge, Ashgate.
Social Research Methods modules developed for distance learning with the Southern Theological and Educational Training Scheme, Salisbury.
Areas of expertise