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Ayelet Kuper

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ProfessorSocial & Behavioural Health Sciences DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Ayelet Kuper

Professor

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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36 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 13 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (3 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2023.

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107

Publications

237

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Research

Equity Incident Report System Patient Complaint System Patient Safety

Latest papers

Making productive use of insider-outsider tensions in HPER.
Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2026 · first author
How can authors address reflexivity in quantitative studies?
Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2026 · senior author
A critical discourse analysis of the problem-oriented medical record.
Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2026

All 107 publications

Latest funding

Amplifying the Voices of People Living with Obesity: Addressing Epistemic Injustice to Support Chronic Disease Management
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$150,000
Improving equity in healthcare quality through hospital safety monitoring systems
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
$558,451
The promotion process as an act of power: An institutional ethnography of faculties of medicine in Canada
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$99,314

All 11 grants and awards

107 publications.

Making productive use of insider-outsider tensions in HPER.

Kuper A, O'Sullivan P, van Schalkwyk S

Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice2026First author

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-026-10550-y PMID: 42189447

How can authors address reflexivity in quantitative studies?

O'Sullivan P, van Schalkwyk S, Kuper A

Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-026-10536-w PMID: 41910706

A critical discourse analysis of the problem-oriented medical record.

Huang D, Kuper A, Whitehead C

Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice2026

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-026-10532-0 PMID: 41831141

On the receiving end: feedback literacy for mentees.

van Schalkwyk S, Kuper A, O'Sullivan P

Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice2026

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-026-10506-2 PMID: 41632225

From findings to scholarly insights: moving beyond description.

van Schalkwyk S, O'Sullivan P, Kuper A

Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-026-10578-0 PMID: 42675348

Re-examining claims about competence by design (CBD) implementation success in Canadian postgraduate medical education.

Chainey J, Kuper A, Brydges R

Medical teacher2026

DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2026.2628089 PMID: 41670661

Sparking justice under the aegis of pragmatism: A mentorship program for Black and Indigenous students in Canadian medicine.

Kalocsai C, Fernando O, Tesfaye M, Weiss S, Kuper A, Tinmouth J, Daneman N, Andrade M, Norris M

Social science & medicine (1982)2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118665 PMID: 41110248

Disagreeing respectfully: embracing complexity facilitates civil discourse.

Lefkowitz A, Maniate JM, Kuper A

Canadian medical education journal2025Senior author

DOI: 10.36834/cmej.82086 PMID: 41255929

A lifeline for the craft of writing: A response to Masters' Artificial Intelligence and the Death of the Academic Author.

Paton M, Kuper A

Medical teacher2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2025.2523466 PMID: 40693516

Giving effective feedback on writing.

Kuper A, O'Sullivan P, Schalkwyk SV

Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice2025First author

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-025-10467-y PMID: 40788613

Amplifying the Voices of People Living with Obesity: Addressing Epistemic Injustice to Support Chronic Disease Management

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Catalyst Grant: Partnering for Impact - Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research

Principal investigators: Wiljer, David E; Patton, Ian T

Keywords: Belonging; Chronic Disease Management; Epistemic Injustice; Equity; Knowlege Mobilization; Lived Experience; Multidisciplinary Team; Obesity; Partnership Building; Patient Experience

$150,000

Improving equity in healthcare quality through hospital safety monitoring systems

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Trbovich, Patricia; Coffey, Maitreya S; Goldman, Joanne B; Kooijman, Allison L; Kuper, Ayelet

Keywords: Equity; Incident Report System; Patient Complaint System; Patient Safety

$558,451

The promotion process as an act of power: An institutional ethnography of faculties of medicine in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Soklaridis, Sophie

Keywords: institutional ethnography; equity; promotion; framework development; academic medicine

$99,314

The promotion process as an act of power: An institutional ethnography of faculties of medicine in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Soklaridis, Sophie

Keywords: institutional ethnography; equity; promotion; framework development; academic medicine

$69,376

ECHO Canada Patient Oriented Research and Health Equity: A Proposal to Create a Virtual National Training Entity

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Training Grant: SPOR National Training Entity - LOI

Principal investigators: Crawford, Allison; Abramovich, Alex; Alloo, Javed; Boivin, Lisa; Linklater, Renee; Tepper, Joshua D; Clarkin, Chantalle L; Hatcher, Simon; Henderson, Jo; Lunsky, Yona J; Richardson, Lisa; Serhal, Eva; Soklaridis, Sophie; Strudwick, Gillian

Keywords: Education And Training; Health Equity; Patient Oriented Research; Technology

$3,959

Advancing Equity through Health Professions Education: Collaborative Development of a Research Program based on the 'Coin Model of Privilege and Allyship'

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Nixon, Stephanie A; Maracle, Dawn T; Nnorom, Onyenyechukwu

Keywords: Allyship; Cultural Competence And Cultural Safety; Equity, Diversity And Inclusion; Gender Equity; Health Equity; Health Professions Education; Indigenous Health; Privilege; Racism; Social Determinants Of Health

$20,000

Better education for better teamwork: Understanding the discourses to improve the practices of interprofessional education

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Whitehead, Cynthia

Keywords: Collaborative Practice; Critical Social Theory; Discourse Analysis; Foucault; History Of Health Professions Education; Interprofessional Education

$242,261

Knowledge production practices and legitimization strategies used by social scientists and humanities scholars working in faculties of medicine

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Albert, Mathieu

Keywords: sociology of science; multidisciplinary research; Bourdieu; university studies; scientific cultures; research assessment

$51,900

Addressing the 'Knowledge Problem' in Medical Education

Nominated PICIHR2011CIHR New Investigator

Principal investigators: Kuper, Ayelet

Keywords: Curriculum; Legitimate Knowledge; Medical Education; Qualitative Methods; Social Science Methods; Social Sciences/Humanities Knowledge

$300,000

Factors Enabling and Hindering Interdisciplinary Research: A Case Study of the field of Medical Education Research

Nominated PICIHR2008Operating Grant: Priority Announcement (IHSPR)

Principal investigators: Kuper, Ayelet

Keywords: Discourse Analysis; Interdisciplinarity; Knowledge Translation; Medical Education Research; Sociohistorical Analysis

$38,463

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Profile data last refreshed on July 30, 2025 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.

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Ayelet Kuper

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Making productive use of insider-outsider tensions in HPER.

How can authors address reflexivity in quantitative studies?

A critical discourse analysis of the problem-oriented medical record.

On the receiving end: feedback literacy for mentees.

From findings to scholarly insights: moving beyond description.

Re-examining claims about competence by design (CBD) implementation success in Canadian postgraduate medical education.

Sparking justice under the aegis of pragmatism: A mentorship program for Black and Indigenous students in Canadian medicine.

Disagreeing respectfully: embracing complexity facilitates civil discourse.

A lifeline for the craft of writing: A response to Masters' Artificial Intelligence and the Death of the Academic Author.

Giving effective feedback on writing.

Amplifying the Voices of People Living with Obesity: Addressing Epistemic Injustice to Support Chronic Disease Management

Improving equity in healthcare quality through hospital safety monitoring systems

The promotion process as an act of power: An institutional ethnography of faculties of medicine in Canada

The promotion process as an act of power: An institutional ethnography of faculties of medicine in Canada

ECHO Canada Patient Oriented Research and Health Equity: A Proposal to Create a Virtual National Training Entity

Advancing Equity through Health Professions Education: Collaborative Development of a Research Program based on the 'Coin Model of Privilege and Allyship'

Better education for better teamwork: Understanding the discourses to improve the practices of interprofessional education

Knowledge production practices and legitimization strategies used by social scientists and humanities scholars working in faculties of medicine

Addressing the 'Knowledge Problem' in Medical Education

Factors Enabling and Hindering Interdisciplinary Research: A Case Study of the field of Medical Education Research

Frequent collaborators

Joanne Goldman

Sophie Soklaridis

Ryan Brydges

Walter Tavares

Elise Paradis

Wendy Levinson

Shiphra Ginsburg

Brian Wong

Kulamakan Kulasegaram

Leahora Rotteau

Patricia Trbovich

Maitreya Coffey

Valerie Taylor

Lisa Richardson

Paula Rowland

Christine Shea

Lianne Jeffs

Kaveh Shojania

Fiona Webster

Csilla Kalocsai

Risa Freeman

Stella Ng

Pier Bryden

Nancy McNaughton

Jayna Holroyd-Leduc

Alan Neville

Aliki Thomas

Heather Boon

Merrick Zwarenstein