Why has Cambridge's youngest black professor resigned?
A University of Cambridge professor has resigned "with immediate effect" following plagiarism accusations.
On Wednesday the university said it had launched an investigation into Professor Jason Arday "following new information" about his "academic qualifications and honorary appointments".
Arday became the University of Cambridge's youngest ever black professor in 2023.
Accusations of plagiarism in Arday's work were first voiced by Nathan Cofnas - a US researcher and self-defined "race realist", whose role at a Cambridge college was terminated after backlash to his view that under a true meritocracy black people would "disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment".
