Nationality Canadian Years active 2002 — present | Name Dave Holmes | |
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Residence Gatineau, Quebec, Canada Education Ph.D., Nursing; M.Sc., Nursing; B.Sc., Nursing Occupation Full Professor, University of Ottawa; Researcher, Author, Editor-in-Chief | ||
Dave Holmes, RN, Ph.D., is a Canadian professor of nursing, researcher, and author based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His research and writing are focused in the fields of public health, forensic nursing, critical theory, epistemology, law, ethics, psychiatric nursing, correctional nursing, the sociopolitical aspects of nursing, sexuality, and public health nursing.
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Biography
Holmes earned his bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Ottawa in 1991, his M.Sc. in Nursing from the Université de Montréal in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Nursing from the Université de Montréal in 2002. In 2003, he completed a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship in health care, technology, and place at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work. Since then he has been principal investigator on CIHR- and SSHRC-funded research projects on risk management in the fields of public health and forensic nursing. Most of Holmes’s work and research is based on the post-structuralist works of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Michel Foucault. He has presented at several national and international conferences.
Holmes teaches postgraduate nursing theory, forensic nursing, and policy courses at universities in Ottawa, Montréal, and Pittsburgh. As of 2014, he was a University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing (2009-2019), at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing; a Full Professor, Director, and Associate Dean of the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing; and the Editor-in-Chief of Aporia - the Nursing Journal.
Holmes has also been an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (2013-2016); Fort de Kock College of Health Sciences, West Sumatra, Indonesia (2013-2016); Binawan Institute of Health Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia (2013-2016); the University of Chester, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Chester, United Kingdom (2008-2014); and City University, School of Community and Health Sciences, London, United Kingdom (2008-2013). He was a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Nursing, Sydney, Australia, in 2008, and was an Honorary Visiting Scholar at Flinders University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Adelaide, Australia, in 2006, and Duquesne University, School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1999.
Works
Holmes has co-edited 4 books:
He has also authored over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 33 book chapters, 19 other peer-reviewed articles, 10 non-peer-reviewed articles, and 9 conference abstracts/proceedings. He has spoken at 30 peer-reviewed conferences and has been invited to speak at over 30 conferences. The following are among Holmes's published works:
Professor Holmes was also one of the interviewees for Philosophy of Nursing: 5 Questions.