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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

Jason Arday: The ‘superstar’ Cambridge professor dramatically undone by plagiarism row

“The cruelty that I’ve experienced and the positioning of me as this kind of liar and fantasist is totally unacceptable,” Jason Arday, the youngest ever black professor at the University of Cambridge, told The Times on Friday.

By the following Wednesday, the “superstar academic” had resigned after being accused in media reports of plagiarising from works produced by other authors in his PhD thesis.

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