A list of the 50 most influential higher education professionals using social media in the UK has been released.
The line-up was created after Jisc, the sector’s main technology body, asked university workers to nominate people who were using social media in unique or interesting ways.
The nominees were whittled down to a top 50 by a judging panel, which included Chris Parr, digital and communities editor at Times Higher Education. He was joined by Eric Stoller, a blogger for Inside Higher Ed and Russell Stannard, founder of Teacher Training Videos, as well as David Kernohan and Sarah Knight from Jisc.
Most of the top 50 primarily use Twitter, but other social networks such as Facebook are represented too.
The full list in alphabetical order (for information on the individuals, :
Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University
William Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University
Luke Burns, University of Leeds
Liz Cable, Leeds Trinity University
Nathaniel Coleman, University College London
Jasmine Connolly and Nathaniel Hobby, Bournemouth University
Tony Coughlan, The Open University
Tom Crick, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Egle Dagilyte, Anglia Ruskin University
Jon Dron, University of Brighton
Lee Dunn, University of Glasgow
Rhodri ap Dyfrig, Aberystwyth University
Caitlin Golaup, Cardiff University,
Lisa Harris, University of Southampton
Sarah Honeychurch, University of Glasgow
David Hopkins, University of Warwick
Paul Hopkins, University of Hull
Matt Johnston, Coventry University
Jennifer Jones, University of the West of Scotland
Kip Jones, Bournemouth University
Steven Jones, University of Manchester
Meena Kotecha, London School of Economics
Natalie Lafferty, University of Dundee
Kate Lindsay, University of Oxford
Teresa MacKinnon, University of Warwick
Liz McCarthy, University of Oxford
Stephen McClean, Ulster University
Moira McLoughlin and Wendy Sinclair, University of Salford and
Claudia Megele, Middlesex University
Sonal Minocha, Bournemouth University
Liz Mossop, University of Nottingham
Chrissi Nerantzi, Manchester Metropolitan University
Nicola Osborne, University of Edinburgh
Nick Pearce, Durham University
Sara Perry, University of York
Paul Reilly, University of Leicester
Kate Reynolds, Bath Spa University
Vivien Rolfe, University of the West of England
Roger Scully, Cardiff University
Dominic Shellard, De Montfort University
Andrew Smith, The Open University
Guiseppe Sollazzo, St George’s, University of London
Amanda Taylor, University of Central Lancashire
David Walker, University of Sussex
Phil Ward, University of Kent
David Webster, University of Gloucestershire
Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University
Matt Williams and Pete Burnap, Cardiff University
Gary Wood, University of Sheffield
Jonathan Worth, Newcastle University
For information on each of the individuals,
