Cambridge dons demand accountability over Jason Arday appointment
Jason Arday at the time of his appointment to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The GuardianView image in fullscreenJason Arday at the time of his appointment to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023. Jesus College, Cambridge, and the university’s faculty of education have taken down Arday’s staff profiles.Arday had signed up to speakers’ bureaus and, since his Cambridge appointment, has addressed a number of commercial organisations, including the annual conference of the Association of British Insurers in 2025.
- ▪Jason Arday at the time of his appointment to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023.
- ▪Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The GuardianView image in fullscreenJason Arday at the time of his appointment to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023.
- ▪Jesus College, Cambridge, and the university’s faculty of education have taken down Arday’s staff profiles.Arday had signed up to speakers’ bureaus and, since his Cambridge appointment, has addressed a number of commercial organisations, in
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Jason Arday at the time of his appointment to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The GuardianView image in fullscreenJason Arday at the time of his appointment to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The GuardianJason ArdayCambridge dons demand accountability over Jason Arday appointmentExclusive: Academics say university must take responsibility for ‘grotesque racism’ unleashed and hold independent inquiryRichard Adams Education editorThu 6 Aug 2026 14.40 EDTLast modified on Thu 6 Aug 2026 14.41 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleThe University of Cambridge’s leaders deserve blame for the “grotesque racism unleashed” by Jason Arday’s appointment as professor, according to academics calling for the…
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