British academic Jason Arday, who resigned from the University of Cambridge earlier this month amid a high-profile plagiarism storm that featured racism claims, was found dead on Friday, UK media outlets reported.
Arday, 41, died after being found unresponsive at an address in south London on Friday afternoon, Sky News and other media said, citing a statement from the capital's Metropolitan Police Service.
Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, emergency services said.
Arday resigned from his post at Cambridge University last week shortly after the prestigious British institution announced a probe into the various accusations against him.
He made headlines when the university appointed him as its youngest black professor in 2023 but he since faced snowballing claims he plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis.
