Jason Arday: a question of academic standards

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

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'.

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

Amongst the hundreds of professors to walk the cloisters of Cambridge, Jason Arday stood out.

Jason Arday affair leaves questions for Cambridge to answer  The Times