Andrey S. Olkov

The increasing need of the state for the latest scientific research and development entails the requirement to intensify the research activities of modern universities. In practice, there is a contradiction between the need to improve the quality of training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel and the insufficiently high level of training of graduates of postgraduate/adjunct studies, which led to the research problem. The aim of the study is to identify the opinion of postgraduate students/adjuncts about their research activities during an online survey, analyse the results obtained and draw conclusions about possible ways to improve the training of highly qualified personnel. The research is based on a subject activity-oriented methodological approach that allows us to consider the scientific activities of postgraduate students/adjuncts from the perspective of creative interaction, reflection, individual self-learning and self-development. The study involved postgraduate students and adjuncts of graduating classes of higher education institutions in Ryazan, who carried out research in various scientific fields – technical, medical, natural science, social, humanitarian and military. 68 respondents aged from 25 and up to 41 years and older took part in the survey. 27 of them were women and 41 were men. The novelty of the conducted research lies in identifying and analysing the opinions and assessments of postgraduate students/adjuncts of the final year, characterizing their understanding of the difficulties of studying in postgraduate school. The theoretical significance lies in enriching the methodology and technology of vocational education in terms of training scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel in postgraduate and adjunct studies. The practical significance lies in the possibility of using the research results to improve the quality of training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel at a modern university. The prospects for further research lie in the scientific substantiation of ways to improve the training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel in civil and military universities, in improving the quality of scientific leadership, in considering the potential of using artificial intelligence technologies in the process of conducting scientific research.