Dave Holmes

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.

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.