Dave Holmes (researcher)

Dave Holmes
Dave Holmes, University Research Chair in Forensic nursing, University of Ottawa, December, 2013
Born	20 September 1967
Residence	Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Ph.D., Nursing; M.Sc., Nursing; B.Sc., Nursing
Alma mater	Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Occupation	Full Professor, University of Ottawa; Researcher, Author, Editor-in-Chief
Years active	2002 — present
Employer	University of Ottawa
Organization	School of Nursing
Known for	Public Health, Forensic Nursing, Critical Theory, Epistemology, Law and Ethics, Psychiatric Nursing, Nursing in Corrections, Socio-political Aspects of Nursing, Sexuality, and Public Health Nursing
Notable work	(Re)Thinking Violence in Healthcare Settings: A Critical Perspective (2012)
Website	University of Ottawa

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.

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^[1] (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.^[2]

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,^[3] 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:

• Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation and Assistance,^[4] Ashgate, 2014;
• (Re)Thinking Violence in Healthcare Settings: A Critical Perspective,^[5] Ashgate, 2012;
• Abjectly Boundless: Bodies, Boundaries, and Health Work,^[6] Ashgate; 2010, and
• Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Health Care,^[7] Ashgate, 2009.

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:

• Insufficient" but still "necessary"? EBPM's dangerous leap of faith^[8]
• MS3 Squad: Considering Cyborgs for Future Prevention Programs^[9]
• Nursing in Corrections: Lessons from France^[10]
• Deconstructing the Psychopath: A Critical Discursive Analysis^[11]
• Practice to Evidence and Evidence to Practice: Misunderstanding the Epistemic Incommensurability^[12]
• Le mouvement sur les données probantes: état de la situation^[13]
• Civilizing the Barbarian: A Critical Analysis of Behaviour Modification Programs in Forensic Psychiatric Settings^[14]
• Entre soin et punition: la difficile coexistence entre le soin infirmier et la culture carcérale^[15]
• La mise en salle d'isolement en milieux psychiatriques : critique du processus décisionnel^[16]
• Subjugated to the 'Apparatus of Capture': Self, Sex, and Public Health Technologies^[17]
• The Use of Postcolonialism in the Nursing Domain: Colonial Patronage, Conversion, and Resistance^[18]
• Desire, drug use, and unsafe sex: a qualitative examination of gay men who attend gay circuit parties^[19]
• Faceless Sex: Glory Holes and Sexual Assemblages^[20]
• Bareback Sex: A Conflation of Risk and Masculinity^[21]
• Displacement and Emplacement of Health Technology: Making Satellite and Mobile Dialysis Units Closer to Patients?^[22]

Professor Holmes was also one of the interviewees for Philosophy of Nursing: 5 Questions.^[23]

Academic Activities

• Editor-in-Chief, Aporia – The Nursing Journal,^[2] 2009-
• Member, Editorial Board, Nursing Inquiry,^[24] 2007
• Reviewer – Journal of Forensic Nursing,^[25] 2007
• Member, Peer Review Committee – CIHR, Gender, Sex & Health, 2004–07
• Reviewer – Social Science and Medicine,^[26] 2004-
• Reviewer – Nursing Philosophy,^[27] 2004-
• Reviewer – Nursing Inquiry,^[24] 2003-
• Reviewer – Perspectives in Psychiatric Care,^[28] 2003-
• Book Editor, North America, Nursing Inquiry,^[24] 2001-2006

Memberships, licenses, and associations

• Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2013-
• College of Nurses of Ontario, 1991-

References and Further Reading

External links

• Official website
• University of Ottawa - Faculty of Health Sciences - University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing