Youngest black professor ever appointed to Cambridge University accused of plagiarising other academics' works
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The youngest black professor ever appointed at Cambridge University has been accused of plagiarising other academics' work.Concerns have been raised over Jason Arday's work within academic circles since 2023, when he was appointed as professor of sociology at the age of just 37.
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The concerns around Mr Arday's work were aired this week in an article published on the blog of a former Cambridge academic, who compared side-by-side images of Mr Arday's PhD dissertation with the thesis of another student.Analysis carried out by The Times found multiple examples of identical or near-identical passages in Mr Arday's thesis from 2015 with that of Paula Zwozdiak-Myers of Brunel University, which was published six years prior.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say In one section of the 401-page thesis, Mr Arday writes: "The student teachers believed that pupil learning and development was attributable to their personal improvement in five main areas: greater understanding, insight and awareness about...
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