Vera Serkova graduated from St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philosophy in 1983. She defended her doctoral theses (Habilitation) on Formation of the method of phenomenological reduction in the philosophy of E. Husserl. She conducted the conferences: “Descriptive Practices in Culture” (November 2008 as part of the “Days of St. Petersburg Philosophy”), “Genealogy of Values in Russian Philosophy-2008” (November 2012 as part of the “Days of St. Petersburg Philosophy-12”) and published the proceedings of scientific conferences “Genealogy of Values in Russian Philosophy” (St. Petersburg, 2013), “Descriptive Practices in Culture” (St. Petersburg, 2011).

Author of 4 monographs, of more than 140 research papers, including those on the analysis of reality in the philosophical concepts of phenomenologists, realists, and anti-realists. Membership in academic Organizations: Academic Council in Russian State Pedagogical University after A. I. Herzen.

Scientific interests are in the field of descriptive practices in culture.