Jason Arday, illiterate until 18, becomes youngest black Cambridge professor
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Jason Arday
University of Cambridge
A sociologist who could not read or write until he was 18 has been appointed the University of Cambridge’s youngest black professor. Jason Arday, 37, was diagnosed with autism and global development delay as a child, and raised in a deprived part of Clapham in southwest London. He couldn’t talk until he was 11, but went on to get two GCSEs and a degree in physical education and education studies. He received his PhD in 2016, and will begin his new job at Cambridge’s faculty of education next week. “If we want to make education more inclusive, the best tools we have are solidarity, understanding and love,” he said.
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