Janice Holmes

Janice studied history at the University of Guelph and Queen’s University, Kingston, in Canada before obtaining a PhD in history from Queen’s, Belfast, in 1995. She was then awarded a three-year Faculty of Arts fellowship at University College, Dublin, before taking up the post of lecturer in Irish history at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, in 1997. She joined The Open University in 2006 and is based in Belfast, where she works as a senior lecturer and staff tutor for The Open University in Ireland. She serves on the committee of the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies and is currently chair of the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences.

Janice’s research interests include evangelical Protestantism in 19th- and 20th-century Britain and Ireland, the deaconess movement in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and vernacular religious buildings in Ulster. She has written on revivalism, female preaching and the interconnections between street preaching and sectarian violence.