Trustees

Dr Jason Arday is Professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge University and was previously Professor of Sociology of Education at Glasgow University. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, an Adjunct Professor at Nelson Mandela University in the Centre for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation and a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading Race Equality Thinktank. Jason is also a Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He sits on the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) National Advisory Panel and is a School Governor at Shaftesbury Park Primary School in London.

At 37, Jason is the youngest Black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge – a platform he intends to use to inspire more people from under-represented backgrounds into higher education, building on First Star and the university’s many initiatives in this area. Jason has written, featured and spoken on issues of race and racism in education and society for The Guardian, Times Higher Education (THE), The Conversation, ITV News, BBC News, BBC Newsnight and BBC Radio and Sky News. Jason speaks regularly at national and international conferences, as well as Parliamentary, public and community events. Outside of academia, Jason has been a prolific fundraiser and has raised over £5 million pounds for 80 national charities over a 17 year period, winning numerous prodigious national and community fundraising awards for fundraising and community engagement achievements. He has also undertaken and completed relief work in South America and West Africa with WaterAid installing water points which provide drinkable and clean water