Jason Arday family GoFundMe tops £80,000 as campaigner pays tribute to 'pioneering' academic

The fundraising drive was launched in memory of the professor by Windrush campaigner Sir Patrick Vernon

We spoke to Kehinde Andrews, an academic specialising in Black Studies, and a friend of Jason Arday.

The academic was found dead a week after he quit his role as Cambridge University professor and Jesus College fellow after allegations he had plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis and embellished his life achievements.

Friends have paid tribute to British sociologist and professor Jason Arday following his death, days after he stepped down from Cambridge amid intense scrutiny over plagiarism allegations.

Jason Arday, who frequently appeared in UK media, resigned as a professor of sociology of education at Cambridge earlier this month following the accusations.

THE death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday is a “tragedy” and should be a “moment for reflection”, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said.

The Metropolitan Police said officers attended a property in Battersea, where the academic lived, on Friday afternoon, and a 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene

A 41-year-old man was found unresponsive in London on Friday evening, police said

Mr Arday, who worked for a spell at Glasgow University, was found “unresponsive” at an address in south London on Friday afternoon

Jason Arday has been found dead (Picture: University of Cambridge FacultySWNS) Former Cambridge University academic Jason Arday has been found dead at his home in London. Metropolitan Police said they were called out by the London Ambulance Service at 3.12pm today. Arday was found ‘unresponsive’. Got a story? Get in to

Jason Arday: Former Cambridge University academic found dead in London home  gbnews.com

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British academic and author Jason Arday has died, according to reports. He was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, The Telegraph reports.

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Arday, who became the university’s youngest black professor at the age of 37, has denied any wrongdoing, saying in a resignation letter he did not accept “the narratives that have surrounded me”.