They produced side-by-side comparisons identifying extensive passages in Arday's academic work that appeared identical or strikingly similar to previously published scholarship. A man who couldn't read until he was 18 goes on to earn a doctorate and become a professor at Cambridge University. “I can confirm that Professor Arday isn't a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow,” a spokesman told the Herald. He emailed Arday, Cambridge, and Liverpool John Moores with questions about the thesis and Arday's extraordinary fundraising and endurance-running claims. Arday's Cambridge professorship was decided by a nine-member Board of Electors chaired by Baroness Sally Morgan, master of Fitzwilliam College and a deputy to Cambridge's vice chancellor.