Academic who raised plagiarism allegations against Jason Arday suspended by his university
The Belgian university said Cofnas’s public comments may have crossed disciplinary bounds as it weighs whether to refer the case for further action.
- On Thursday, Ghent University suspended postdoctoral researcher Nathan Cofnas, launching a preliminary disciplinary investigation into his public statements regarding plagiarism allegations against late Cambridge professor Jason Arday.
- In late July, Cofnas published evidence on Substack showing large sections of Arday's 2015 PhD thesis at Liverpool John Moores University were taken nearly verbatim from a 2009 dissertation by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers.
- Rector Petra De Sutter and vice-rector Herwig Reynaert stated that while Ghent values academic freedom, "that freedom is not unlimited" and must be restricted to protect others' rights.
- Cofnas confirmed his suspension on Thursday, stating "They will almost certainly fire me," as more than 30,000 people attended a vigil in Trafalgar Square for Arday, found dead in London on August 14.
- Cofnas, who describes himself as a "race realist," previously left Cambridge's Emmanuel College in 2024 amid controversy over his writings on race and intelligence, positioning the suspension within broader institutional tensions.
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The US researcher Nathan Cofnas presented the plagiarism accusations against the late ex-Cambridge professor Jason Arday. Now the University of Ghent has exempted Cofnas from his duties.
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Academic behind Arday plagiarism charges suspended
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