Publications

Publication Profiles

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles from Last Five Years

*Denotes supervisees.

  • Aliyas Z, *Thompson C, Bakkali F, Collins PA, Frohlich KL. “Reclaiming urban space for children: Examining the impact of School Streets on independent mobility and active transport.” Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2026. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-025-01058-w
  • Clemens M, Collins PA, Lee E-Y. “Understanding COVID-19 pandemic-related shifts in active commute patterns: Insights from employees of a Canadian university.” Journal of Transport & Health. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101957
  • Thompson C*, Collins PA, Dean J. ““It just galls me, as a taxpayer”: Trust implications of school closure decision-making in Ontario.” Administration & Society. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997241296117
  • Collins PA, Thompson C*, Humes M*, Frohlich K. “Contrasting Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Full-Year School Street Initiatives in Ontario, Canada.” Journal of Urban Mobility. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urbmob.2024.100094
  • Barber R*, Collins PA, Masuda JR. “The Fate of Closed Schools: Documenting the Relationships Between School Property Reuses and their Beneficiaries in Ontario, Canada.” Community Development. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2024.2379846
  • Thompson C*, Collins PA, Frohlich K. “Promoting children’s health through community-led street interventions: Analyzing sustained voluntarism in two Canadian School Streets.” BMC Public Health. 2024. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-024-18531-9
  • Winters M, Fuller D, Cloutier M-S, et al. “Building CapaCITY/É for Sustainable Transportation: Protocol for an Implementation Science Research Program in Healthy Cities.” BMJ Open. 2024. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/4/e085850.info
  • Aliyas Z, Collins PA, Sylvestre MP, and Frohlich KL. “Investigating social inequalities in children’s independent mobility, active transportation and outdoor free play in two Canadian cities.” Preventive Medicine Reports. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102642
  • Frohlich K, Collins PA. “Children’s right to the city and their independent mobility: Why it matters for public health.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2024. https://jech.bmj.com/content/78/1/66.info
  • Barber R*, Hartt M, Collins PA. “Excessive Rightsizing? The interdependence of public school closures and population shrinkage”. Canadian Geographies. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12870
  • Fraser C*, Collins PA. “Rooming with Seniors: Investigating Demand for Intergenerational Home-Sharing Arrangements Amongst Students at a Canadian University.” Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2022.2161688
  • Leger S, Dean J, Thompson C*, Collins PA. ““Nothing in my years of community organizing has affected me as deeply as this closure did”: Resident perceptions of the school closure process and impacts in Ontario, Canada.” Canadian Planning and Policy. 2023. https://doi.org/10.24908/cpp-apc.v2023i1.15714
  • Collins PA, Barber R*, Masuda JR, Snow G*. “Socio-spatial dimensions of school closures and neighbourhood change in Ontario: An environmental injustice?” Well-Being, Space, & Society. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2023.100138
  • Aliyas Z, Bayram T, Chrun-Tremblay S, Collins PA, Frohlich K. ““Hard-to-reach” or Hardly Reaching? Critical Reflections on Engaging Diverse Residents from Low Socio-Economic Status Neighbourhoods in Public Health Research.” International Journal of Public Health. 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1605296
  • Smith L*, Gosselin V, Collins PA, Frohlich K. “A tale of two cities: Unpacking the success and failure of school street intervention launches in two Canadian cities.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811555

Other Scholarly Contributions from Last Five Years

  • Collins PA, Frohlich KL. “Street rebalancing initiatives as community health interventions in Canada.” In Exploring Place and Health through Community Health Interventions. Routledge. 2027.
  • Barber R, Empey-Salisbury M, Hartt M, Collins PA. “Planning for Play.” In Linking Ages – A Dialogue Between Childhood and Ageing Research. Routledge. 2024.
  • Barber R*, Hartt M, Collins P. School Closures in Shrinking Cities. Municipal World. December 2023 Issue.
  • Lee C*, Collins PA. “Mapping Vancouver’s Slow Streets in the Context of Equity.” Plan Canada. 2021. Winter: 44-47.