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Professor Timon Screech's scholarship on under-researched areas of Japanese art, history and culture has reached a range of audiences outside of academia. Notably, it has produced a significant impact on cultural life, demonstrated most clearly by its influence on the renowned author David Mitchell in the writing of his best-selling historical novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, set in Japan in the late 1700s (2010). Mitchell drew extensively upon several of Screech's publications to inform and, ultimately, enrich his work of fiction, furnishing it with historical contextual detail unavailable in any other scholarly source.
Dr Swenson-Wright's research into mechanisms for resolving the security challenge of a nuclear North Korea combines collaboration with a broad range of policy communities, advocacy and advisory work with the UK and Republic of Korea (ROK) governments, engagement with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) (including unique educational and cultural initiatives between Britain and the DPRK), contact with policy makers, politicians, military officers, corporate and nongovernmental representatives, as well as frequent interaction with the international media and the general public. His research has had an impact on government policy, training military personnel, deepening public and media understanding of the Korean situation, and persuading business leaders to engage with the DPRK.
Through a series of briefings, interviews and workshops Hugo Dobson's research on the Group of 8 and Group of 20 summits and the role played by Japan has had both policy impacts and media/public understanding impacts. On the one hand, his research has impacted on European and UK policymakers' knowledge base and policy debates, in addition to the approaches they have taken in negotiations with the Japanese government. On the other hand, his research has influenced the reportage of global media outlets and their decisions as to what is newsworthy, ultimately contributing to national debates, particularly in the UK and Japan.