She is an anthropologist, folklorist, and oral historian. After completing her basic philological education at the Lviv Ivan Franko National University, she received her PhD in folklore studies and worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2001-2023). Since 2024, she has been an independent researcher. She is a member of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Association of Oral History.

As part of her scholarship support from the Józef Mianowski Foundation, she completed an internship at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw (2008). In 2022, she participated in the Erasmus+ Academic Mobility Project. She is a scholarship holder of the STIBET I program of the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD (2023).

In recent years, her research interests have been related to oral history and folklore studies of the experience of the "difficult past" (collectivization, deportation, imprisonment, famines, and the Holodomor, the Holocaust, wars, the Resistance Movement in the twentieth century) and the "difficult present"— the Russian war against Ukraine in the twenty-first century. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, he has been conducting interviews with those who have experienced Russia's war against Ukraine. She focuses on the verbal representation of the subjective experience of war in the context of typological features of the construction of the narrative about the "difficult past."

Her previous research has focused on the cultural typology of Ukrainian borderlands in general and the folklore tradition of the Ukrainian-Moldovan borderland in particular. She is the author of a monograph on the symbolism of Ukrainian folklore and co-author of a study on the folklore tradition of Ukrainians in northern Moldova.

Nadiia's work in cooperation with the UCORE project involves coding two waves of conversations recorded by the Ukrainian team of the initiative "24.02.22, 5 am: Testimonies from the War" in 2022 and 2024-25.

Nadiia will work with a predefined code tree, according to which she will label different fragments of the interviews. Subsequently, she will analyze in more detail those parts of the recordings that are marked as "sensitive information." The next stage of her work will be to prepare the transcripts for further archiving. She will pay special attention to taking into account the wishes of the interviewees regarding how their testimonies should be stored.