Professor Dave Holmes holds the University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing. After completing his BSc (Ottawa 1991), MSc (Montréal 1998) and PhD (Montréal 2002) in nursing, he completed a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship in the “Health Care, Technology and Place” program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work (2003). To date, Professor Holmes has received funding from CIHR and SSHRC to be a principal investigator for research on risk management in the fields of public health, psychiatric nursing and forensic nursing. Most of his work, comments, essays, analyses and research is based on the poststructuralist works of Deleuze and Guattari, and Michel Foucault.
Professor Holmes has been published in top-tier nursing, criminology, sociology and medical journals. He has published over 215 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 57 book chapters. He has co-edited the collections Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Health Care (2009); Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Care (2010); (Re)thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach (2011); Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus (2014); Critical Approaches in Nursing Theory and Nursing Research: Implications for Nursing Practice (2017); Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines (2017); and Philosophies et sciences infirmières : contributions essentielles à la discipline (2024). He has presented at several national and international conferences and has been a visiting professor in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Professor Holmes is not currently accepting new students for thesis supervision.