Professor Jason Arday - plagiarism etc

People in academia like any other field (the man who claimed war hero status) as I said just do others a disservice. He wont be the first person to try and shortcut the way to recognition

He has definitely (in my opinion) enjoyed the adoration of being in the spotlight, youngest professor etc.,

Not sure he will enjoy it so much now the truths are being exposed.

Used it and unmasked - look where its got him. Like I said, I think he is a manipulative man. *Using the anything "card" just does a disservice to and discredits those who have really been racially disadvantaged.

It is not just about racism, you do get fantasists everywhere ( I once was involved with a charity where we had 2 people falsely claiming to have the condition we provided support for). It is in my view the damage the identity politics narrative has done to people's faith in institutions.

Wyllow3

The bloke in the O/P seems to have some narcissistic tendencies if you ask me.

You mean Arday?
That is what this is all about- but does being a fantasist necessarily stem from narcissism?

He is going to be a poster boy the other way now.
Which I suspect wont bother him either.

Yes if ever the good law project defended me I would know I was in trouble.

How many people are, and have been using the racist card. At work and home.

Thousands I presume.

Well they need the egg. Professional Conduct issues come with responsibility.

I can’t help thinking he’d have been quickly rumbled in a blue collar factory environment where spades are called spades and common sense rules. Irritatingly smug little twerp. Enjoyed being bathed in the adoration of the intelligentsia as their ‘poster boy’ for DEI. Such tosh. Cambridge has egg on its face well deserved too. 😮

I mean, look at what Trump claims and the reality!

The Good Law Project is supporting him

Another alarm bell now.
It apparently had 10,000 signatures!

There are going to be so many people with egg on their faces.

The bloke in the O/P seems to have some narcissistic tendencies if you ask me.

I am not so bothered by the peer review stuff.
Easy enough to have gone a bit overboard in that.

It is the rest of it that bothers me.
He must have been raising alarm bells with some[either at work or at home] for decades.
Seems like so many people kept quiet.
Or were shut up. One way or another.

From the New York Post
He insists he’s a victim of racism and insufficient DEI — as the BBC notes: “Arday did not dispute the allegations of plagiarism, but defended himself by arguing that he had not received adequate supervision during his PhD given his autism and learning disabilities .”
Even the left-wing (sic) Guardian newspaper found Arday a mite less than truthful, when he claimed a campaign to get him fired from Cambridge included a man threatening him with a knife (the school’s video system showed no man and no knife) and a severed pig’s head sent anonymously to his parents (London butchers and police had no records to support Arday’s claim)

When the paper asked Arday about his tale after trying to fact-check it, he said, “To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me “
The trouble is, too many in the media and academia have been believing Arday all along

Says it all

On that case, imo, the Male Ego at work.

Two University’s have come out and said he was never a visiting professor (Glasgow and Ohio)

The Good Law Project is supporting him.

I recall that story Primrose the "war hero".

All about self glorification and basically inadequacy inside.

It is rare especially in Russell Group universities. It should have been peer reviewed at the very least never mind by his PhD supervisor.

No excuse - egg on face of those passing the PHD - unless he has falsely published his own version of it without that process. There is no excuse, whatever the content is.

Like Monica, DS is a professor in a Russell group uni and it is absolutely extraordinary for this to happen in this context. And shameful.

All very concerning how easily he has manipulated the system over the years. Sadly this is prevalent across the NHS andmany parts of the public sector. People who are in roles (and protected) because of their identity, not because of their ability.

Such a fantasist! He claims he was mute until eleven and had a brain tumour. Ye gods. Surely easy to check background school and health records? But ‘they’ don’t want to, do they? It doesn’t fit the narrative. Cambridge University are saying nothing (yet) but it can’t hold out much longer.

It all leaves a general feeling of uneasiness.

He is referred to as the 'Poster -boy Professor' and I have no doubt that there were those who did raise concerns about his astonishing rise in Academia but were talked down because of threats of being accused of racism, which Jason Arday has now claimed.

What I do not understand is why no one in his subject and the Faculty he was appointed to had not known him and his academic record and other activities going back decades
What M0nica says, but I wonder to what extent nobody checked because it might have revealed an inconvenient truth. A bit like Starmer not asking the relevant questions about Peter Mandelson.
At a more disturbing level (2 tier policing?) an investigative journalist who did start asking questions was warned off by the police on the grounds of Arday’s “mental health”
Jack Grove, a reporter for Times Higher Education (THE), was accused of harassment after he emailed a series of questions to Prof Jason Arday about his academic record. Mr Grove said officers told him to stop contacting the professor because his “mental health” had been affected by the questions
Prof Arday also hired the law firm Carter-Ruck, which suggested in a letter to THE that its “apparent attack” on him “may be... racially motivated”
The Metropolitan Police spent four months looking into the claim of harassment before deciding in February to close the case.

Vintagewhine

I'm afraid this sort of behaviour is not uncommon. It's just rare for it to be reported in the media, especially as much as this has been.

I actually take issue with that statement. The guy is a Cambridge professor & I don't think you'd find another who has grossly exaggerated his fund-raising, fabricated some of his tales of racial harassment (or equivalent fabrication) and got his position relying on a plagiarised thesis.

DS is a professor. He has managed it all without feeling any need to lie or fake any part of his story.

What I do not understand is why no one in his subject and the Faculty he was appointed to had not known him and his academic record and other activities going back decades.

DS is recognised expert in his field, he has a steady publication record in peer-reviewed journals going back decades. He is part of country-wide, if not international, circle of scholars in his field, who have known each other for a long time. If he claimed credit for something he had not done, work or personal, it would be common knowledge.

I cannot understand why the faculty at Cambridge, did not already know that this man was making unsubstantiated claims before the question of his appointment ever arose.

On the other hand stories like this do add to the gaiety of nations, when the news is otherwise so grim. we need the light relief.