Jason Arday

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Jason Atta Kwei Arday (9 May 1985 – 14 August 2026) was a British academic and a professor of sociology of education. He joined the faculty of the University of Cambridge in 2023, becoming the youngest black professor in the university's history. In August 2026, he resigned following accusations of academic misconduct and numerous biographical inaccuracies. Arday was found dead at his London home nine days later. Born in London to Ghanaian parents, Arday said he was diagnosed with autism, was mute until 11, and could not read or write until adulthood. After receiving a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2015, Arday taught physical education at Leeds Beckett and Roehampton, education studies at Warwick, and sociology at Durham and Glasgow, where he became a professor in 2022. From 2018, he produced academic publications, some focusing on race and racism in the British education sector, and others offering autoethnographic reflections about his life as a neurodivergent black academic...

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