"Arday - who became the university's youngest ever black professor in 2023 - has admitted errors in his work, but said he had faced "an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack" and was not a "liar".
It came after a series of media reports questioning some of his achievements and allegations of plagiarism in his PhD thesis.
Arday said he had "concluded that the only way to bring this chapter to an end is to step away"."
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