The group is led by Sara Hennessy. The CEDiR steering group also includes Rupert Wegerif, Farah Ahmed, Riikka Hofmann, Steve Watson and Alison Twiner. PhD students Luwei Bai and Nowsha Farha support CEDiR's communications and community activities.

Over 70 early career researchers, established academic staff and others based in the Faculty, wider University and beyond are also members of CEDiR. These include:

• Ayesha Ahmed
• James Biddulph
• Pete Dudley
• Geoff Hayward
• Linda Hargreaves (Emerita)
• Christine Howe (Emerita)
• Katy Jordan
• Yongcan Liu
• Ros McLellan
• Neil Mercer (Emeritus)
• Daniel Moulin-Stozek
• Fran Riga
• Sue Swaffield
• Pablo Torres
• Paul Warwick
• Mark Winterbottom