From 2015 to 2019 Collingridge served as the Ernest B. and Leonard B. Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto, Canada.
He is currently the president of the Canadian Physiological Society (CPS) and a reviews editor for the scientific journal Molecular Brain.
Collingridge also holds an appointment in the school of physiology, pharmacology and neuroscience at the University of Bristol, UK.
Collingridge is a member of the scientific advisory board of HelloBio Ltd., a supplier of biotechnology tools, based in Bristol, UK.
[4] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to biomedical sciences.