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Jason Arday faces plagiarism and CV claims
Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge academic who became the youngest Black man to hold a professorship there, is facing scrutiny over his PhD dissertation and his official biography, Livemint reported.…
Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge academic who became the youngest Black man to hold a professorship there, is facing scrutiny over his PhD dissertation and his official biography, Livemint reported. Arday is accused of lifting more than 100 passages in his dissertation, and Ghent University postdoctoral researcher Nathan Cofnas published a Substack article detailing instances in which it appeared plagiarised. Media reports have separately questioned Arday's claimed roles at Ohio State University, the University of Glasgow and Durham University. Ohio State said it has no record of employing him. Glasgow confirmed he worked there from 2021 to 2023 but disputed his claim to a later visiting professorship. Durham described its connection to him as an unpaid academic association. Arday told the Guardian, as cited by Livemint, that multiple investigations, including one by an academic misconduct panel, found no plagiarism or misconduct. Cambridge said Liverpool John Moores University, which awarded his PhD, had reviewed the thesis and found no plagiarism, adding that such investigations are the awarding institution's responsibility.
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Livemint's report sets Cofnas's detailed plagiarism allegations against Cambridge's own account, that Liverpool John Moores reviewed the thesis and cleared it, plus Arday's on-record denial. The employment claims split three ways rather than resolving cleanly: Ohio State disputes any record of him, Glasgow confirms two years of employment but contests the visiting-professorship claim, and Durham describes only an unpaid tie. None of the three universities' statements, as reported, explains why Arday's biography described these roles the way it did. Livemint says authorities are investigating Arday's academic qualifications and the claims he has made about his life, and it is those findings that will resolve the competing versions.
Source: www.livemint.com
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