Lord Woolley Joins Call for Inquiry Into ‘Hounding’ of Jason Arday
The academic resigned after Cambridge opened a misconduct probe and media reports raised plagiarism concerns, with police saying his death is not believed suspicious.
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Jason Arday, a former black professor at Cambridge University, died on 14 August in London, was accused of plagiarism against a background of racist cabal. A tragedy that revives the debate on discrimination against...
Universities And The Media Are To Blame For Jason Arday’s Rise And Fall — And Maybe His Death
Police found Jason Arday dead yesterday afternoon, nine days after he resigned his Cambridge professorship in disgrace. The Metropolitan Police said his death “is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious.” His family strongly implied his death was a suicide. “The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason,” they wrote....
Lord Woolley joins call for inquiry into ‘hounding’ of Jason Arday
LONDON: Lord Simon Woolley, the principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, has joined forces with the campaigning pressure group Good Law Project to call for an immediate investigation in the media onslaught against Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor who was found dead at a London address last week. Arday, 41, who became Cambridge’s youngest black professor in 2023, resigned as a professor of sociology of education a week earlier after h…
The Loss of Jason Arday
Photograph Source: Southdevonian – Public Domain The outlines of the career and tragic suicide of Jason Arday, a distinguished professor at the University of Cambridge, have been much publicized. These headline-grabbing accounts are not, of course, intended to delve into the deeper and more complex considerations underlying this tragedy. Such considerations may become apparent with the passage of time, awaiting the day when the current media hy…
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