Galina Sergeevna Melnik was awarded a badge "Honorary Worker of Higher Education and Special Education".
Professor of the Department of Periodicals of St. Petersburg State University, Doctor of Political Sciences, Honored Worker of Higher Education and Professional Education. She was born in 1951 in Tashkent, worked in newspapers Komsomolets Uzbekistan, Pravda Vostoka, Izvestia, etc. Then she moved to Leningrad, worked as a laboratory assistant at the Soviet Press Department, wrote a Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Legal Propaganda in the Newspaper ".
Area of scientific and professional interests: Psychology Of Mass Communication, Political Journalism, Business Journalism, Psychology Of Journalistic Creativity, Theory And Methods Of Journalistic Creativity, Text Formation.
Education:
- Tashkent State University, Faculty of Journalism (1973).
- St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Journalism - extramural postgraduate study. She defended her thesis "Political Propaganda in The Newspaper: The Socio-Psychological Aspect" (1983)
- She defended her doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Philosophy "Mass Communication as a Factor of Political Influence" in two specialties - Social Psychology and Political Culture for the degree of Doctor of Political Sciences (1998).
International experience
- Internships in Holland (European School of Journalists, Maastricht) and Canada (King's college University, Halifax).
- Chairman of the organizing committee, host and expert of the international scientific and practical seminar of the Council of Europe "Freedom of speech: transparency of government actions and access to official sources of information" (St. Petersburg, Philosophical Faculty of St. Petersburg State University, November 2002).
- Co-chairman of the organizing committee of the international gender scientific conference "Man and women: parallel worlds?" (St. Petersburg, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University, June 2004).
- Guest lecturer: Central Asian Dilomatic Academy (Tashkent, 2008), Al-Farabi Kazakhstan National University (UNESCO Department of Journalism, Almaty, 2012-2013), IITU (Almaty, 2013, 2014).
- Participation in over 30 international conferences.
- Collaboration (scientific and publishing) with the Adam Mickiewicz University (Faculty of Political Science and Journalism (Poznan, Poland) and Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Political Science (Torun, Poland).
Scientific and organizational activities:
- Expert of the Center of Expertise of St. Petersburg State University
- Member of three dissertation councils (D 212.232.53, Social Psychology, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Psychology; D 212.232.14, Political Science, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Political Science; D 212.232.17, St. Petersburg State University, Institute "Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communication").
- Member of the editorial board of the journal "Science and Life of Kazakhstan";
- Member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of St. Petersburg State University. Series. Oriental studies. Philology. Journalism (until 2016);
- Member of the St. Petersburg Philosophical Society;
- Member of the Interregional Public Organization of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region "Association of Public Relations Specialists";
- Member of the Association of Film Education and Media Pedagogy of Russia;
- Member of the St. Petersburg Philosophical Society;
- Member of the Council for Information Disputes and Cooperation with Mass Media of the Leningrad Regional Bureau.