The University of Glasgow has said it will review the appointment of Professor Jason Arday amid claims of plagiarism.
The Academic resigned from his position at Cambridge University this week following two weeks of scrutiny over his work.
Professor Arday was accused late last year of having plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis at John Moores University in Liverpool, with similarities to another thesis by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, a student at Brunel University of London, published six years previously.
John Moores had previously carried out an investigation which did not uphold charges of plagiarism and put the similarities down to "honest and reasonable error".
Professor Arday was employed by Glasgow University for a little over a year between 2022 and 2023, and his profile on the Cambridge Faculty of Education listed him as a visiting professor" at the institution, which was later found to be inaccurate and that he had never held that status.
The university has now said it will review the process which led to his appointment.
A University of Glasgow spokesperson said: “Jason Arday was employed as Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow, from January 2022 to March 2023. He left the University to take up his role as Professorial Chair at the University of Cambridge.
“The Principal has commissioned a review of the appointment with the aim of understanding all the facts and learning lessons for the future.”
Nathan Cofnas, an academic sacked from a Cambridge college role in 2024, said he had run Prof Arday's PhD thesis through plagiarism detection software and found what he described as passages "lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source".
The academic has not disputed that errors exist in his work. He has instead argued that he lacked adequate supervision during his PhD because of his autism and learning disabilities, and could not afford a proofreader early in his career.
As well as his claim to have been a visiting professor at Glasgow, professor Arday has claimed to have completed a masters at the University of London, which had no record of him having studied there, and to have published a book called Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse, with Palgrave Macmillan, which said it took a proposal from him but the book was never published.
The row has also extended to Prof Arday's public claims about charity fundraising challenges.
He has said he raised more than five million pounds for charity over 20 years, including through running 30 marathons in 35 days and 600 miles in six days.
He has since told the Guardian the 600-mile challenge was actually completed over 12 days, with rest days built in, and that two universities which awarded him honorary degrees — Southampton Solent and Anglia Ruskin — have amended their websites to remove or correct the claims.
He said he could not name those who helped raise the £5m because of non-disclosure agreements.
