She was President of the Women's Engineering Society (WES), after holding a number of roles in its London branch.

Collin received an honours degree from King's College London and continued to study metallurgy further at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute.

[1] She did part time research for several years on the subject of impurities in ores and metals, for which she received a Ph.D. from London.

[1][3][4][5] During the year of her chairmanship, the London branch held 9 branch meetings, with talks on various subjects including Equality of Status, Ultrasonics and Starting an Engineering business, and 6 visits, including to the J. Lyons food factory and the X-ray department at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

[7] The Annual General Meeting of the WES London Branch was postponed so that members could attend.