Professor Jason Arday - plagiarism etc

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.

Not at all. There have been countless reports about these characters. There was the unqualified “psychiatrist” who worked for decades in the NHS. There have been nurses and doctors unmasked and reported on. There was a very high ranking Police Chief who wore medals he was not entitled to at a Remembrance Ceremony and lost his job as a result.
That’s just off the top of my head in a couple of minutes.

We had an elderly man in our area who claimed his wife and daughter were killed in a terrible accident many years ago. Lies. He also made up a story about his experience at Hiroshima. More Lies. He also wore war medals that he was not entitled to and that’s how he got unmasked. That made the regional newspapers and then the nationals.

There’s even more of his fantasy tales in the news today. He claimed in a podcast that his Mother had 5 degrees and that was whilst bringing up three children, one of whom was severely autistic and needed 24/7 care!

These people get away with it for so long because their stories are so fantastical that others think they must be true and so it continues.

I am disappointed and shocked that a top Uni could believe him.

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.

MawsRosie he is definitely a plonker and then some.

Significant parts of his PhD thesis appear to have been copied verbatim from another researcher, Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, who wrote a PhD thesis on the same topic several years earlier.
He also appears to be playing the “race card”
When LJMU investigated the case, Arday did not dispute the specific allegations of plagiarism but said the misconduct panel should consider the political context of a “war on critical race theory” and the weaponisation of plagiarism allegations against black researchers
What?
His other fraudulent claims like being part of the 7 Up TV programmes, despite not being born when the first were made, and marathon running, fund raising etc have similarly been debunked.
The Times yesterday
He has also been accused of lying about or exaggerating parts of his life, including claims to have run 600 miles in six days, and raising more than £5 million for charity
He denied fabricating stories about marathon running and raising millions for charity, although he conceded he was part of a fundraising “syndicate” rather than doing it all himself, and that he had run 600 miles in 12 days, not six. Arday told The Times: “I accept responsibility that I could have been really, really explicit” in correcting that narrative. claims to have run 600 miles in six days, and raising more than £5 million for charity.
Anybody reminded of Zack Polanski?
What a plonker!

Apparently it wasn't plagiarism, was just a few simple mistakes, dozens of them, actually. But annotation and referencing are fiddly and time consuming, and he had far more important things to do than obey academic conventions.

It’s funny but also exposes the apparent blindness of institutions who want to bend over backwards to be seen to be inclusive, right-on, trendy or whatever.
But in an earlier thread on dodgy CVs, politicians and inflated egos we asked how on earth these people think they can get away with it when facts are so easily checked.
And that said, why the heck dont those in charge check their claims. The tempting answer is that they don’t want to know because an appointee or candidate ticks all the other boxes.
This guy has made a laughing stock of his university employers and most of all himself - but also the rest of us for trusting them.