Finishing date: October 2021.
In September 2021, I submitted my PhD thesis to print. Just after I remember calling Lisen Schultz, my supervisor, in an elated frenzy. It was a sunny early autumn day, and I told her I think I had lost my mind a little bit – but also that it excited me, that rush of being completely consumed by something. Lisen, who had both submitted a PhD thesis of her own many years ago and just recently written a book about sustainable business, said she recognized the feeling.
After my defense five weeks later, I gave Lisen these mittens. In the last of my thesis papers, I had interviewed forest owners about special places on their properties. Many chose an old oak or pine tree as one of their places. In the postscript of the thesis, I wrote about the linden tree my grandmothers paid to have planted in a Stockholm park as a gift for me when I was born. And the ash Yggdrasil is the tree of life in Norse mythology. So I decorated Lisen’s mittens with a pine tree and leaves from oak, linden and ash.
Katja Malmborg 