Project team

The project brings together academic, collections, cultural, legal, creative media and commercial expertise from across the University of Birmingham. This interdisciplinary structure is essential because CCE readiness requires specialist input across rights, metadata, technical preparation, pricing, licensing, responsible AI and stewardship.

• Dr Anandadeep Mandal
  Project Lead
  Overall project leadership, responsible marketplace framing, commercial valuation, pricing, responsible AI and data market governance, reporting and stakeholder coordination.
  
  
• Cassie Chadderton
  Project Co-lead, UK
  Strategic leadership across the University Cultural Portfolio, corpus selection, collections governance, stewardship and quality assurance.
  
  
• Clare Mullett
  Project Co-lead, UK
  Collection governance, corpus selection, provenance review, stewardship requirements and content quality assurance.
  
  
• Robert Wenley
  Specialist
  Curatorial validation, object descriptions, image and rights considerations, sensitivity review and content selection support.
  
  
• Lee Flanagan
  Specialist
  Creative media, metadata mapping, content manifests, export preparation, file structures and CCE technical liaison.
  
  
• Nicola Cardenas Blanco
  Specialist
  Legal oversight, rights due diligence, review of CCE platform terms, licensing templates, risk escalation and institutional signing route.
  
  
• Richard Bogue
  Specialist
  Commercial legal input on contractual terms, licensing conditions, permitted uses, liabilities, takedown provisions and relevant trust liaison.
  
  
• Research and Innovation Associate
  Operational delivery support, including readiness register maintenance, metadata enhancement, file checks, manifests, test package preparation and onboarding evidence.
  
  
• West Midlands Combined Authority
  Advisory, dissemination and transferability feedback role. WMCA will not provide content or be a dependency for CCE onboarding.