和友说，到底什么样的人才能申英国人文phd申得开心啊
-完全不需要funding的人，大概
……但凡你需要钱，你就完蛋了，你就得证明自己是有五年工作经验的应届生

it's very much against the nature of humanities research to have an oh so very clear theoretical framework & timeline for the research over the next 4 years before you are admitted to a PhD program. What use to have a concrete and detailed plan that you will 100% abort later? All the AHRC awardees that I knew actually do things very different from what they listed in their research proposal. I do not trust the tenet of "testing your skills in mapping a doctoral scale project" and such. It's more bureaucracy than skill testing.