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Full ProfessorNursing SciencesUniversity of Ottawa

Dave Holmes

Full Professor

Nursing Sciences

Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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46 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 25 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 13 research grants (11 CIHR, 2 SSHRC), most recently in 2026.
Supervised 3 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2021.

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Research

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Mental Health Psychiatry Risk Hiv Ethics Nursing Quality Of Care Family Engagement

Latest papers

Contested Moral Logics of Care with Infanticidal Mothers: A Critical Nursing Research.
Issues in mental health nursing · 2026 · first author
Infanticide and the Figure of Disordered Mothers: How Forensic Psychiatric Nurses Construct Their Patients' Temporalities of Will, Madness, and Care.
Nursing inquiry · 2026 · first author
[Forensic nursing: context, avenues for reflection, and challenges of an emerging practice].
Revue de l'infirmiere · 2026 · senior author

All 105 publications

Latest funding

Family Involvement in Forensic Mental Health Care: Experiences of Individuals Found Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder and their Families
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
$85,000
Hidden in plain view: A critical qualitative study of coercive control of children and youth
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$124,723
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nurses and Women Convicted of Infanticide: A Critical Qualitative Study
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$56,018

All 23 grants and awards

105 publications.

Contested Moral Logics of Care with Infanticidal Mothers: A Critical Nursing Research.

Holmes D, Domingue JL, Einboden R, Kilty J, Chartrand J, Hammond C

Issues in mental health nursing2026First author

DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2026.2724409 PMID: 42742354

Infanticide and the Figure of Disordered Mothers: How Forensic Psychiatric Nurses Construct Their Patients' Temporalities of Will, Madness, and Care.

Holmes D, Kilty J, Domingue JL, Einboden R, Chartrand J, Hammond C

Nursing inquiry2026First author

DOI: 10.1111/nin.70135 PMID: 42418719

[Forensic nursing: context, avenues for reflection, and challenges of an emerging practice].

Paradis-Gagné E, Holmes D

Revue de l'infirmiere2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.revinf.2026.03.003 PMID: 42002363

From Disciplinary Societies to Societies of Control: Foucault, Deleuze and the Care of People Under the Mental Health Review Board in Psychiatric Settings.

Paradis-Gagné E, Roy-Ducharme MÈ, Argod M, Bernheim E, Holmes D

International journal of mental health nursing2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/inm.70220 PMID: 41555835

Accelerated Aging, Debilitation, Slow Death, and the Multiple Temporalities of Aging Incarcerated Persons: A Philip K. Dickian Science Fiction Examination.

Johansson JA, Holmes D, Paradis-Gagné E

Nursing inquiry2025

DOI: 10.1111/nin.70058 PMID: 41056477

Formal Coercion and the Moral Division of Labor: Moving Beyond Role Conflicts in Psychiatric Nursing.

Pariseau-Legault P, Ouellet G, Bernheim E, Goulet MH, Jacob JD, Labrecque-Lebeau L, Holmes D

Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/jpm.70016 PMID: 40755295

Impacts of Neoliberalism and Disciplinary Power on Beauty and Thinness Ideals Among Adolescents in Western Societies.

Beauchemin É, Holmes D

Research and theory for nursing practice2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1891/rtnp-2024-0148 PMID: 40355135

When Psychiatric Services Become a Waiting Room: Situational Analysis of Involuntary Commitment and Treatment as Experienced by Patients and Nurses.

Pariseau-Legault P, Pelosse D, Bernheim E, Goulet MH, Ouellet G, Labrecque-Lebeau L, Jacob JD, Holmes D

Clinical nursing research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/10547738251321067 PMID: 40071832

Where do they stand? A post-structuralist examination of offense-supportive narratives constructed by men convicted of child sexual abuse.

Knack N, Holmes D, Hammond C, Hammond B, Trunzo M, Murphy L, Fedoroff JP

International journal of impotence research2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41443-023-00685-6 PMID: 36859682

Practices of Resistance and Nursing.

Holmes D, Bender M

Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals2025First author

DOI: 10.1111/nup.70010 PMID: 39704193

Family Involvement in Forensic Mental Health Care: Experiences of Individuals Found Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder and their Families

Principal investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Domingue, Jean-Laurent; Holmes, Dave; Paradis-Gagné, Etienne

Keywords: Family Engagement; Family Involvement; Family-Centered Care; Forensic Mental Health; Forensic Psychiatry; Mental Health; Not Criminally Responsible On Account Of Mental Disorder; Psychiatry

$85,000

Hidden in plain view: A critical qualitative study of coercive control of children and youth

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Einboden, Rochelle

$124,723

Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nurses and Women Convicted of Infanticide: A Critical Qualitative Study

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Holmes, Dave

Keywords: Infanticide; Motherhood; Feminism; Stigma; Social Representation; Abjection; Qualitative Research; Critical Discourse Analysis; Forensic; Healthcare

$56,018

Pornographic imaginaries, global assemblages, and risk: A netnography of slam-camming amongst gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men

Nominated PICIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Holmes, Dave; Numer, Matthew S; O'Byrne, Patrick

Keywords: Critical Public Health; Men Having Sex With Men; Online Sex; Poststructuralism; Qualitative Research; Risk; Sexual Practices; Sexualized Drug Use

$141,526

La respiration comme phénomène sociopolitique : comprendre le vécu des personnes rencontrant des difficultés respiratoires sévères en contexte de crise écologique

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Turcotte, Pier-Luc

Keywords: analyse de discours; body-map storytelling; déterminants socioéconomiques; droit à la respiration; environnement; exclusion sociale; maladies pulmonaires; phénoménologie critique; pollution de l'air; poststructuralisme

$71,190

Experiences of Family Roles in the Forensic Psychiatric System: An Ontario-Québec Qualitative Comparative Study

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Domingue, Jean-Laurent

Keywords: Forensic Mental Health; Forensic Psychiatry; Family; Governmentality; Public Safety; Risk Management

$53,378

Queering digital connections: Exploring the impacts of technology and the COVID-19 pandemic on older 2SLGBTQ+ adults' friendships, relationships, and communities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Numer, Matthew

Keywords: LGBTQ+; older adults; friendship; relationships; community; technology; online; dating apps; COVID

$38,695

La respiration comme phénomène sociopolitique: comprendre le vécu des personnes rencontrant des difficultés respiratoires sévères en temps de changements climatiques

SupervisorCIHR2021CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Turcotte, Pier-Luc

Keywords: Body-Map Storytelling; Ergothérapie; Oxygénothérapie; Phénoménologie Critique; Pollution De L'Air; Poststructuralisme; Respiration; Santé Planétaire; Soutien À Domicile; Théorie Critique

$165,000

Survivre à la contrainte : Analyse situationnelle de la coercition en milieu psychiatrique à partir du point de vue des personnes concernées

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Pariseau-Legault, Pierre

Keywords: (1) coercition; (2) intervention psychosociale; (3) psychiatrie; (4) rétablissement; (5) justice; (6) droits humains; (7) justice procédurale; (8) analyse situationnelle; (9) recherche qualitative; (10) éthique

$73,130

Vers une compréhension phénoménologique du stress traumatique secondaire en milieu psychiatrique

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Holmes, Dave; Perron, Amélie M

Keywords: Psychiatrie; Soins Infirmiers; Stress; Traumatisme Secondaire; Violence

$120,000

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Dave Holmes

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Contested Moral Logics of Care with Infanticidal Mothers: A Critical Nursing Research.

Infanticide and the Figure of Disordered Mothers: How Forensic Psychiatric Nurses Construct Their Patients' Temporalities of Will, Madness, and Care.

[Forensic nursing: context, avenues for reflection, and challenges of an emerging practice].

From Disciplinary Societies to Societies of Control: Foucault, Deleuze and the Care of People Under the Mental Health Review Board in Psychiatric Settings.

Accelerated Aging, Debilitation, Slow Death, and the Multiple Temporalities of Aging Incarcerated Persons: A Philip K. Dickian Science Fiction Examination.

Formal Coercion and the Moral Division of Labor: Moving Beyond Role Conflicts in Psychiatric Nursing.

Impacts of Neoliberalism and Disciplinary Power on Beauty and Thinness Ideals Among Adolescents in Western Societies.

When Psychiatric Services Become a Waiting Room: Situational Analysis of Involuntary Commitment and Treatment as Experienced by Patients and Nurses.

Where do they stand? A post-structuralist examination of offense-supportive narratives constructed by men convicted of child sexual abuse.

Practices of Resistance and Nursing.

Family Involvement in Forensic Mental Health Care: Experiences of Individuals Found Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder and their Families

Hidden in plain view: A critical qualitative study of coercive control of children and youth

Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nurses and Women Convicted of Infanticide: A Critical Qualitative Study

Pornographic imaginaries, global assemblages, and risk: A netnography of slam-camming amongst gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men

La respiration comme phénomène sociopolitique : comprendre le vécu des personnes rencontrant des difficultés respiratoires sévères en contexte de crise écologique

Experiences of Family Roles in the Forensic Psychiatric System: An Ontario-Québec Qualitative Comparative Study

Queering digital connections: Exploring the impacts of technology and the COVID-19 pandemic on older 2SLGBTQ+ adults' friendships, relationships, and communities

La respiration comme phénomène sociopolitique: comprendre le vécu des personnes rencontrant des difficultés respiratoires sévères en temps de changements climatiques

Survivre à la contrainte : Analyse situationnelle de la coercition en milieu psychiatrique à partir du point de vue des personnes concernées

Vers une compréhension phénoménologique du stress traumatique secondaire en milieu psychiatrique

Frequent collaborators

Patrick O'Byrne

Marilou Gagnon

Marilou Gagnon

Chad Hammond

Phillip Joy

Matthew Numer

Rochelle Einboden

Jean Jacob

Thomas Foth

Jennifer Kilty

Amélie Perron

Jean-Laurent Domingue

Julie Chartrand