Jason Arday

[FrumpyCat]

There is so much rot


“British universities are funded on assessed output. Careers are built on volume, and institutional income depends on it. Under that pressure the incentive to publish more than you can properly do is universal, which is why plagiarism is the largest single category of allegation in the sector's own data. Meanwhile a senior academic with grants, rankings value and a public protile is an asset on the books. Arday was a named collaborator on more than $10m of UKRI and NIHR funding. Investigating an asset is a write-down, and no external body exists to force it, so the rational institutional move is not to look. That is why the variable predicting who survives a misconduct finding is seniority and market value, and why Arday is being defended.
Class, funding competition and output targets. Unglamorous, and it explains Arday, O'Reilly, Latchman and Manchester with one mechanism.”

When I have a bit of time I might have a bit of a dig into the funding claims. To put it broadly, Cambridge has money coming out it's ears and isn't going to be too bothered about someone who is one of 20 coinvestigators on a £2mill project, especially if they are not the lead institution.

However, they are very concerned about their reputation.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

I know some very senior (and very clever) academics. I don’t know any who hold quite this many honorary visiting professorships.

Jason Arday is a Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow in theSchool of Education, College of Social Sciences. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Jason holds Visiting
Professorships at Coventry University, London Metropolitan University and Nelson
Mandela University. He is a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading Race
Equality Thinktank and the British Sociological Association (BSA). Jason sits on the Centre
for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) National Advisory Panel and the NHS Race and
Health Observatory Academic Reference Group. Jason is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts (RSA).

And a regular reminder that anyone can become a Fellow of the RSA as you just have to pay for it. This includes our good friend Dr Jessica Taylor

 

[Tabitha D]

And the Guardian weighs in.
There’s some really questionable stuff here.

https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...fessor-jason-arday?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

 

[Tabitha D]

One quote from the Guardian article (below). Who on earth would insist on an NDA to prevent you revealing that they donated to charity? Surely they would want this positive news spread?

 

[Tabitha D]

And a couple more bits from the Guardian. Looks like some more stuff he’s been making up:

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

That Guardian article is written by a black journalist and author so Arday can’t claim racism.


Also this line: “When Arday was asked about his claims by the Guardian, he stood by them. “To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me,” he said. “Why would I lie?” Weeeeell

It’s extraordinary that Cambridge put in place enhanced cctv and a panic button when Arday didn’t report either incident to the police nor was there any evidence of his claims.

 

[PineappleQueen19]

He’s lost The Guardian, must be starting to worry a bit now.

I just saw he has also claimed to have been part of the Seven Up programme.

 

[Tabitha D]

That Guardian article is written by a black journalist and author so Arday can’t claim racism.

Also the chap who wrote the article (Lanre Bakare) has also written a book called “We were there: how Black culture & community shaped modern Britain”. It had excellent reviews.
The Guardian article has actually been the most brutal of the lot. I think Bakare may have started off wanting to be on Arday’s side, but clearly once he started digging there was too much that couldn’t be explained.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

He’s lost The Guardian, must be starting to worry a bit now.

I just saw he has also claimed to have been part of the Seven Up programme.

He also says immediately afterwards that he played football professionally.

Is it just that academics can’t possibly believe that anyone could tell such egregious lies? How has he got away with it?

 

[Winthropp Tuesday]

‘Professor Von Munchausen’ If only The Guardian had binned off Monroe and her fanciful tales as quickly!

 

[SunsetSmile]

Re Seven Up point.

That's also on the Bath University recording. I had assumed it was something different (maybe a different initiative relating to his childhood Dxs) from the famous TV series that was much before his time. He said he removed himself at 14.

But so many extreme claims & the flying close to the sun reference.

 

[FourSeasonSoupObsessive]

I think all of these fantasists are very good at a couple of things. They are keenly aware of how much people don’t really pay attention to claims- like when I first heard the “three hundred miles in three days” claim, it didn’t initially land as to how preposterous that was. It only really landed a while later when I was like”Hang on a minute”…

And they know how strongly socialised most people are to not call out lies. Particularly where their experience would be expected to substantially differ from the people they’re talking to. So for Arday, he knows that his white audience will generally be extremely lairy of calling him out because they are anxious not to appear or be racist. Jack Monroe and Jess Taylor do the same with class, gender and sexuality.

Hats off, he’s had a great run.

(LOL, I just SWIDT )

 

[FrumpyCat]

I think all of these fantasists are very good at a couple of things. They are keenly aware of how much people don’t really pay attention to claims- like when I first heard the “three hundred miles in three days” claim, it didn’t initially land as to how preposterous that was. It only really landed a while later when I was like”Hang on a minute”…

And they know how strongly socialised most people are to not call out lies. Particularly where their experience would be expected to substantially differ from the people they’re talking to. So for Arday, he knows that his white audience will generally be extremely lairy of calling him out because they are anxious not to appear or be racist. Jack Monroe and Jess Taylor do the same with class, gender and sexuality.

Hats off, he’s had a great run.

(LOL, I just SWIDT )

I found the same with that Kids Company woman
I took what she said at face value because I wasn't all that bothered and wasn't really listening, besides she was generally a force for the good.

It wasn't until it all started kicking off, I thought, hang on, who on earth believed all this balls..

 

[PineappleQueen19]

His book is starting to circulate

 

[Hefflen]

Absolute Jack Monroeitis here. You can tell he's almost convinced himself and the next step was simply telling the world.

 

[Tabitha D]

He’s supposed to be signed up to do a book tour in the US and UK. I wonder if that will still go ahead? I know they’re still publishing the book (and why not, I guess, it will probably sell well), but a book tour could be a bit of a disaster.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

Ben Ryan has analysed the shifting sands of his charitable claims (never Forget the internet is forever)

Jason Arday Said He’s Not a Liar. The Receipts On His Charity Claims Say: Decide for Yourself.

The Cambridge star professor now says his £5.5 million charity total was the work of a 100-person syndicate. I found every version of the story since 2010, down to his £6,285 JustGiving page.

benryan.substack.com

 

[PineappleQueen19]

The climb downs from his supporters are predictably bullish, this one includes “lynch mob”

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

An error is a mistake. Making dubious claims isn’t a mistake, it’s a strategy.

The mistakes aren’t Arday’s, they’re those of the credulous fools who waved him through because he's black and has stupidly long braids.
The people who are really harmed by idiotic DEI hires are other black people. So the people who are actually harming black academics are people like Alan who seem unable to hold everyone to the sane standard. If you find it difficult to do that, perhaps you need to take a look at your unconscious bias.

 

[Winthropp Tuesday]

U wot, Jason, mate?