An investigation into Professor Arday’s employment will be carried out ‘independently by senior academics from within and beyond Cambridge’

Jason Arday quit his role as a Cambridge professor last week amid a plagiarism row

Professor Deborah Prentice said his 'damaging and difficult case' had provoked 'anger and anxiety' across the university.

Deborah Prentice calls case an ‘aberration’ that should not be used to undermine other black scholars