Professor Jason Arday

Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education

Jason Arday is the 2002 Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. Previously Jason was Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow in the School of Education College of Social Sciences.

Professor Arday has also held the position of Associate Professor in Sociology at Durham University in the Department of Sociology and Deputy Executive Dean for People and Culture in the Faculty of Social Science and Health. He is a Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

Jason is a Patron of the Adult Literacy Trust (ALT) and Get Further. He was formerly a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading Race Equality Thinktank for 11 years. Presently, he is a Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and Autism Action. Jason sits on the NHS Race and Health Observatory Academic Reference Group and the ITV Cultural Advisory Council.

His research focuses on the areas of race and higher education, intersectionality, mental health and education, neurodiversity and cultural studies.