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The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Ryan's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

About Ryan

Dr Ryan Sweet is a cultural and literary historian of disability with a passion for inclusive practice and widening participation in Higher Education. Ryan has published extensively on the ways in which prosthetic body parts were imagined and represented in Victorian literature and culture. He is also interested in tabletop gaming and human-animal relations in literature.

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Ryan's most notable publication to date is his Open Access monograph��, which was published in the prestigious Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture book series in 2022.

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Thanks to generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, in collaboration with the serious games company Focus Games Ltd., Ryan developed the research from his book into a��board game called��, which was taken to market in 2025.

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Alongside his research and creative work, Ryan is an award-winning teacher in Higher Education, having won an Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award at Swansea in 2021.

Supervised Research Degrees

2024–2025: James Cocks (part-time PhD in History, Swansea University), “Arts, Activism, and Accessibility: Disability Arts in Wales, 1980–Present.” (2^nd supervisor)

2024–2025: Ella Harford (full-time PhD in History, Swansea University), “Women and Sexual Deviancy 1770-1830.” (2^nd supervisor)

2019–2020: Kathryn Budden (part-time PhD in Creative Writing, �鶹�ƽ��), “Atypical Rehabilitation Following Brain Damage after Stroke: Stories Told through Poetry and Personal Essay.” (3^rd supervisor)

2019–2020 Connor Ruse (full-time ResM in History, �鶹�ƽ��), “Disability in 1990s Disney Film.” (2^nd supervisor)

Teaching

Victorian literature and culture, disability studies, study skills, interdisciplinary practice, Foundation Years

Contact Ryan

+44 1752 585096
ryan.sweet@plymouth.ac.uk