Nadezhda Lebedeva - Editor is a Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Cultural Studies and works at the Kherson State Agrarian University (Kherson, Ukraine) as the department head of Humanitarian Disciplines Chair, and a professor of the International Personnel Academy in Kyiv and a full member of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio. She is the main editor of the international journal "Universum: Philology & Arts", a reviewer and a member of the editorial board of scientific collections of international conferences and scientific journals ("Journal of Social, Humanity, and Education", "Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Entrepreneurship" Goodwood Publishing), the author of more than a hundred publications, including Scopus and WoS, has recommendations and certificates of honour for successful scientific activity). Experienced in project cinematography management and developed lecture courses in a foreign language for students of state administration. She is the author of more than 100 scientific works. The focus of her research is the cultural and social aspects of regional development. N. Lebedeva graduated from the Kherson State Pedagogical Institute in 1996. After graduating from the post-graduate course at the Kherson State University, became a lecturer at the History of World Culture and Literature Department of the Kherson State University.

In June 2008 was enrolled in the doctoral program of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management in Kyiv, specializing in Cultural Studies. She was awarded the medal "For Civil Courage" of the Afghan Veterans' Ukrainian Union for the book "My Afghan" by Nikolay Vishnyak". Participation in the creation of documentary films and scientific articles is marked by membership in the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio (November 2012). The monograph "Cultural Aspect of Alexander Elagin's Creativeness" was awarded 1st place in scientific direction "Cultural Studies" in 2017 and became the winner of the competition for educational projects "Interclover minus; 2017" in the nomination minus; "Research Project". She also was invited to be a member of the Ukrainian Assembly of Doctors of Sciences in the Field of State Administration (February 2018). Scope of her scientific interests: state administration, philosophy, pedagogy, Russian, Ukrainian and English philology, cultural studies and ethnology.