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Professor Jason Arday’s death has been classed as "unnatural" by a coroner.

An inquest into the death of Professor Jason Arday has opened.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said that the death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday was "a tragedy on so many levels" and that now it was a "moment for reflection".

A joint letter is being circulated by professors at the university calling for an investigation into the university leaders who appointed him.

An academic at the center of a high-profile plagiarism scandal has resigned as a professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge after being placed under investigation.

When the superstar academic Jason Arday took to the stage at the British Sociological Association’s 75th anniversary conference earlier this year, he delivered a talk called Wanted Dead or Alive: the Playbook.

A boy of immigrant parents raised on a south London council estate, who couldn’t speak, read or write for most of his childhood, overcomes such astonishing odds to become, at 37, the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge.

When Jason Arday became a Cambridge professor at the age of 37, he was lionised by the academic world and became a poster boy for the university’s diversity drive.

A classics professor at the University of Cambridge could be dismissed from his post after allegedly giving a female student an unwanted "slobbery kiss".

Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff discovered the forest dating from 390million years ago in high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast

Researchers found patients exhibiting symptoms of Covid months after their initial infection often had low levels of iron in their blood

The painting of former Tory Prime Minister Lord Arthur Balfour was painted red and slashed by pro-Palestine protesters at Cambridge University's Trinity College on Friday

Researchers used virtual reality to test the ability of 100 asymptomatic adults to determine and maintain a route from one place to another with compelling results

The beautiful English village was the backdrop for a Sky 1 comedy series starring Simon Bird and Joe Thomas from The Inbetweeners. The show was set during the First World War

The Royal family have been dealing with numerous health-related issues recently, with King Charles' shock cancer diagnosis being the latest. Here's the full timeline of the health issues that have recently troubled the Royal family

Around 450 members of the Unite union will be on strike until Friday

The bacterium can easily be treated with antibiotics but, unless screened, women won’t know they’re carriers

The giant black hole is a few million times the size of the Sun, and scientists say its size suggests it was 'born big' because of its scale so early in the universe

In the quest to cure type 1 diabetes, scientists have made a surprising discovery – a gene that’s essential for forming the pancreas in human beings is absent from almost all other animals, except apes

Experts discuss whether you should wear a face-mask or not, with a new variant of Covid-19 on the rise. Experts are split, but all say to use common sense and where one when it is appropriate, such as visiting a vulnerable person in hospital

It seems as if everyone is struggling with a cold or flu at the moment - but a doctor has shared the reason why it seems as if it feels impossible to get rid of it

Dr Miriam Stoppard offers her expert opinion on a trial, led by a team at University of Cambridge, into the use of stem cells as treatment for multiple sclerosis

Hundreds of homes and shops have been left without after a power outage occurred in Cambridge this morning, which is said to be due to an underground electricity cable fault

When Cambridge scientists treated mice that had developed inflammatory diseases with a PLK1 inhibitor, it prevented the runaway inflammatory response