A man who couldn’t read or write until he was 18 is set to become Cambridge University’s youngest-ever Black professor.
Professor Jason Arday, 37, was told by therapists and career advisers that he would spend his adult life in assisted living after being diagnosed with autism. But after studying at Liverpool John Moores University, he has now taken up one of the most prestigious professorship posts at Cambridge University and is the youngest Black person to do it.
He joins five other Black professors in the institution and will become one of just 155 Black university professors in the UK, out of a total of 23,000. Professor Arday was diagnosed with global developmental delay when he was a child, affecting his ability to learn how to talk and read.
