Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi joined the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in September 2017 as Research Scholar with the World Population (POP) Program. She is part of the team working under a 2017 ERC grant to make unconventional cross-disciplinary contributions in developing new human well-being indicators.

Anastasia completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Macau in 2015. Her PhD dissertation won the 2015 Atlas TI Award for the best dissertation using qualitative methods at PhD level from the International Institute of Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta. She received her master degree in Counseling and Psychotheraphy from the University of Saint Joseph, Macau, in 2010.
Her recent publications include:
Lijadi, A. A. (2019). Third Culture Kids. In P. Moy (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Communication. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lijadi, A. A. (2018, November 6). Third culture kids: Citizens of the world or somewhere in-between? Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung [Federal Agency for Civic Education].
Lijadi, A. A. (2018). “I am not weird, I am Third Culture Kids”: Identifying enabling modalities for place identity construction among high mobility populations. Journal of Migration and Identity Studies, 12 (2), 2-24.
Lijadi, A. A., & Van Schalkwyk, G. J. (2017). Place identity construction of Third Culture Kids: Eliciting voices of children with high mobility lifestyle. Geoforum, 81, 120-128. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.015.
Lijadi, A. A. & Van Schalwyk, G. J. (2017). Homesickness and perceived university support of first year undergraduate students: The Macau experience. College Student Journal, 51(3).
Lijadi, A. A. & Van Schalkwyk, G. J. (2016). “The international schools are not so international after all”: Online focus group study on educational platform for Third Culture Kids. International Journal of School and Education Psychology, 6(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21683603.2016.1261056.
Lijadi, A. A., & Van Schalkwyk, G. J. (2014). Narratives of Third Culture Kids: Commitment and reticence. The Qualitative Report, 19, Article 49, pp. 1-18.
Lijadi, A. A. (2014). Ethnic estrangement and social mobility in Macao: Perspective of youth on intergenerational transfer of ritual and tradition. International Proceeding of Economic Development and Research, 71, 74-78. DOI: 10.7763/IPEDR. 2014. V71. 14.
Work for CID:
Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi wrote KC12: Third Culture Kids. She translated KC12: Third Culture Kids and KC94: Cross-Cultural Kids into Indonesian. And she was one of the participants in the Roundtable on Intercultural Dialogue in Asia, co-sponsored by CID.


She also supervises postgraduate research in language and intercultural communication; identity; student and academic mobility; international and intercultural education; intercultural competence; autonomous learning; English as a second language education; informal language learning; and intercultural transitions.
She has published research articles in local and international communication and literary journals on transnational audience reception of Korean television dramas; communication, civil society groups, the public sphere, and governance; intercultural communication between Christians and Muslims in the Philippines; Islamophobia and negative media portrayal of Islam; and literary critical essays. She has also written essays on the ideology of peace; reviews of the books of Maulana Wahiddudin Khan, an Islamic teacher advocating for peace; and her reflections on life, society, and spirituality published in 
Her research focuses on stereotypes communicated in interpersonal, intercultural, organizational, and new media contexts. Specifically, she explores the ways in which stereotypes are constructed through interpersonal communication and how this interactional and collaborative process facilitates stereotype maintenance within a cultural knowledge base.
His main area of research is on Mughal miniature painting, with a secondary emphasis on interfaith dialogue during the Mughal Empire of India. His MA was on peace painting, resulting in the following article:
Presently he serves as the executive chief of Intercultural Communication Research Center of SHNU, and the vice president of China Association for Intercultural Communication (CAFIC). His major research interests are identity negotiation and intercultural competence. In 2007-2008, he won a Fulbright grant and conducted research at the Department of Communication Studies of University of Rhode Island in the US. He has published numerous articles which have appeared in Chinese Journal of European Studies, American Studies Quarterly, World Economics and Politics, Contemporary International Relations, International Survey, China Media Research, Academic Research, and so forth.
Her research and teaching interests span organizational and intercultural communication. More specifically, her scholarship focuses on issues of face, cross-cultural communication and the social impact of information and communication technologies. Her current research focuses on differences and similarities across Eastern and Western approaches to communication and cognition, and using Goffman’s concept of Face as an approach to communicative competence.