Experience in forming the scientific apparatus and structure of PhD thesis

Introduction. The article discusses the requirements for PhD thesis in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation and the state standard. The authors consider the issues regarding the formation of the scientific apparatus, which graduate students face at different stages of the dissertation writing, and draw attention to the need to proceed from the peculiarities of the scientific school and the requirements of the dissertation council. It also describes the experience of formation of the scientific apparatus of the PhD thesis on speciality 05.02.22 “Organization of production (construction)”, based on the principles and approaches of the scientific supervisor, professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Lapidus Azari Abramovich, examples are given in the scientific specialities 2.1.14 “Management of the life cycle of construction objects”, 2.1.7 “Technology and organization of construction”.Materials and methods. To form recommendations, a literature review, systematization and generalization of experience in conducting scientific research and preparing a dissertation are performed; for clarity and demonstration of the proposed approaches, the recommendations are accompanied by an example of the formation of a scientific apparatus for a fictional and probably impossible PhD thesis.Results. Recommendations on the formation of the scientific apparatus are given, including the sequence of work, the choice of the research topic, the statement of a scientific problem, the definition of the purpose and objectives of the research, the planning of the research results and their scientific novelty, the theoretical and practical significance of the research results, the formation of the structure of the scientific qualification work.Conclusions. The experience of formation of the scientific apparatus of PhD thesis considered in the article can be used in conducting scientific research and the formation of scientific qualification work in various scientific specialties.

PhD thesis, scientific apparatus, research topic, statement of the research task, scientific novelty, theoretical and practical significance, technologies and organization of construction production