Cambridge academics call for ‘independent’ investigation into Jason Arday appointment

Jason Arday, accused of being a liar and fantasist, may have stepped down from his role as a Professor at Cambridge University over allegations of plagiarism, but that hasn't brought the row over his appointment to an end.

Jason Arday/Image: St Mary's UniversityThe University of Cambridge is reviewing the way it appoints senior academics after the resignation of Professor Jason Arday, whose career and academic record have come under intense scrutiny.Arday, who made history as Cambridge’s youngest Black professor when he was appointed in

A prophecy in a Rio favela, a thesis typed two fingers at a time, a brain tumour found months before the deadline. Here is what Jason Arday's memoir says

Jason Arday, who resigned from Cambridge University on Thursday, is scheduled to speak about his book Great and Beautiful Things in Edinburgh.

Amid much attention to Jason Arday’s plagiarism and advanced Walter Mittyfication, the gobbledygook of his writing style has been largely overlooked, not least by the professorial electors at Cambridge and the PhD examiners at Liverpool John Moores University. Dawkins’ Law of the Conservation of Difficulty states that

Times letters: Scrutiny of Cambridge professor’s vetting  The Times

Cambridge University faces calls for independent review of appointment process  ITVX

Jason Arday’s resignation from Cambridge followed a series of media reports alleging he plagiarised his PhD thesis.

Jason Arday’s resignation from Cambridge followed a series of media reports alleging he plagiarised his PhD thesis.

The real story is less Arday's BS than the fact that so many ostensibly clever people were sucked in by it a€” the inevitable consequence of their craven cave to the cult of BLM.

Group calls for ‘thorough and transparent investigation’ of hiring of professor who resigned after his claims came under scrutiny The University of Cambridge has announced a review into the way it vets and hires senior academic staff in an effort to fend off external and internal criticism of its appointment of Jason A

Prof Priyamvada Gopal, who is part of the group, says Cambridge should not be "marking its own homework".

Officials confirmed the investigation into its youngest ever black professor would 'feed into a review of the process for the appointment of senior academic roles'.

Cambridge academics demand independent inquiry into appointment of Jason Arday as professor  lbc.co.uk

A British sociologist who became famous as the youngest Black professor ever at the University of Cambridge has resigned after the university opened an investigation into “new information” about his academic qualifications.

The real story is less Arday’s BS than the fact that so many ostensibly clever people were sucked in by it — the inevitable consequence of their craven cave to the cult of BLM.

Yesterday, 5 August, Professor Jason Arday resigned from his Sociology post at University of Cambridge and Jesus College. When he took the job back in 2023, he became the youngest Black professor ever to teach at the institution. However, since that point, accusations of plagiarism have dogged his work. Several things

A British sociologist who became famous as the youngest black professor ever at the University of Cambridge has resigned after the university opened an investigation into “new information” about his academic qualifications. Professor Jason Arday, who was 37 when he became a Cambridge professor in 2023, announced his de

Youngest black professor at University of Cambridge resigned after the institution announced an investigation into allegations of plagiarism.

The professor resigned from his high-profile role at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday

The institution was willing to look the other way when it came to the now-former professor’s manifest inadequacies and deceptions for DEI reasons.

The scholar announced his resignation amid a new investigation into his qualifications.

The row over Jason Arday, Cambridge’s “youngest black professor”, raises serious questions about the corrosive role Diversity, Equality & Inclusion (DEI) has come to play in institutions, businesses and society at large, says Ike Ijeh Plagiarism is older than Ancient Greece but, unlike imitation, it is the least sincer

Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he has been through it all. Not everyone believes him.

Jason Arday was hired by the University of Cambridge in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in its history. Doubt has since been cast on his academic qualifications and claims about his life.

The University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row has resigned "with immediate effect".

Celebrity Cambridge professor Jason Arday—in a speech given a year ago—made a series of lurid and macabre claims about threats made to him and his family, including "pigs' heads in my parents' door." But a year later, with Arday now fighting accusations of rampant plagiarism and lies about his life story, there's no ev

It comes after a series of media reports, including a story in the Daily Telegraph, alleging he plagiarised his PhD thesis and other research.