{"id":32761,"date":"2017-07-03T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=32761"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:27:18","slug":"mary-elizabeth-collins","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/mary-elizabeth-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Elizabeth Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mary Collins is an internationally recognized expert on child welfare. She currently serves as the international editorial advisor for British Journal of Social Work and on the editorial board of Journal of Policy Practice and Research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author of <em>Macro Perspectives on Youths Aging Out of Foster Care<\/em> (NASW Press, 2015) and more than 90 articles and book chapters Collins\u2019 research focuses on developing supportive policies and programs for older youth in state systems. Her work has appeared in journals including <em>Journal of Youth Studies, Child Welfare<\/em>, <em>Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis<\/em>, and <em>Journal of Social Policy<\/em>. Over the past decade, she has been a visiting scholar in Switzerland at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, in Ethiopia at University of Gondar and in Northern Ireland at Queen\u2019s University School of Social Work. Collins spent the 2011-2012 academic year as a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At BUSSW, Professor Collins previously served as chair of the Human Behavior, Research and Policy Department, associate dean for Academic Affairs, director of the Dual Degree Program in Social Work and Theology, co-coordinator of the specialization in Children, Youth and Families, director of the Doctoral Program, and chair of the Social Welfare Department. She is a faculty affiliate with BU\u2019s Center for Innovation in Social Science, Center for Antiracist Research, and the Initiative on Cities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11983,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81787,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32761\/revisions\/81787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}