A Cambridge University professor has defended his academic work after finding himself at the centre of a plagiarism row. The row erupted after another academic - self-defined "race realist" Nathan Cofnas, who was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024 - said he found numerous instances of plagiarism in Prof Jason Arday's work and questioned some of his stated achievements. Arday admitted errors in his work, telling the Times, external in an interview on Saturday that he was accountable for those mistakes but that "what I am not is a liar". Arday said some errors in his early academic work was because of his autism, as he relied on using mimicry to make sense of information, and that similar scrutiny would find similar errors in work by other academics. In 2023, the then 37-year-old sociologist became the youngest ever black professor at Cambridge, telling the BBC at the time his work focused on neurodivergence and race in education.