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.

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The full list in alphabetical order (for information on the individuals, :

Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University

William Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University

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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

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Meena Kotecha, London School of Economics

Natalie Lafferty, University of Dundee

Kate Lindsay, University of Oxford

Teresa MacKinnon, University of Warwick

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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,

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