Dr Ryan Sweet

Research Highlights

1. Sweet, R. (2022). Toothy tales: dentures in the writings of H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling. Cultures of Oral Health: Discourses, Practices and TheoryRoutledge

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59577
2. Sweet, R. (2022). Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Springer International Publishing.

   https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78589-5, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59578
3. Sweet, R. (2021). Physical ‘Wholeness’ and ‘Incompleteness’ in Victorian Prosthesis Narratives. In Clark Lawlor (Ed.), Literature and Medicine (pp. 230-246). Cambridge University Press

   https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355148.016, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59579
4. Sweet, R. (2018). Pirates and Prosthetics: Manly Messages for Managing Limb Loss in Victorian and Edwardian Adventure Narratives. In Joanne Ella Parsons and Ruth Heholt (Ed.), The Victorian Male Body (pp. 87-107). Edinburgh University Press

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59580

   https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/victorian-male-body/pirates-and-prosthetics-manly-messages-for-managing-limb-loss-in-victorian-and-edwardian-adventure-narratives/64D9FFBD509F0D440160943AA27C3093
5. Sweet, R. (2017). ‘Get the Best Article in the Market’: Prostheses for Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Commerce. Rethinking Modern Prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820-1939 (pp. 114-136). Manchester University Press

   https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526101426.003.0006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59581
6. Sweet, R. (2014). “A Human Bundle”: The Disaggregated Other at the Fin de Siècle. Victorian Review, 40(1), 14-18.

   https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0022, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59582

All Research

• FY-011 Academic Writing and Skills Development

  This module prepares students for studying at degree level. They are encouraged to develop a questioning approach, to structure an argument, to write academically and to avoid plagiarism. Students are introduced to the study skills needed for successful learning within a higher education environment. Students are supported to work autonomously as well as together in a community of practice to develop their own knowledge and skills and support the development of their peers.

• FY-012 Introduction to Being Human

  This module will focus on introducing what it is to be human from a broad humanities and social science perspective. It will offer the opportunity to engage with key ideas, theory and literature within these disciplines. It will therefore prepare students for further academic work in the humanities and social sciences and initiate the development of critical thinking and creative abilities.

• FY-015 Introduction to Research

  This module provides an introduction to the common approaches used in research in the humanities and social sciences. Students will gain a broad introductory understanding of research and actively engage with some of these research methods, carrying out small research tasks within the module. Students will work together and support each other in a community of practice, developing their knowledge, understanding, and skills in research. This module will also support subject-specific learning and skills development to prepare students for the final research essays that they will write in the second semester.

• FY-016 Research Essay

  This module will build on the introduction to research and study skills modules, providing an opportunity for students to apply what they have learnt by researching a topic of their choice related to their chosen degree subject. Alongside their independent research, students will have further opportunity to develop and refine their research skills thus preparing them for the challenges that writing at degree level will present.

• Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) Fellowship at the University of Leeds: “Disability and Animality in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture” 2017 - 2018

  , with Professor Stuart Murray (Research Mentor), £50,000 plus £11,000 open access top-up for book publication

• Wellcome Trust Small Grant for travel bursaries for delegates attending the “Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2015” 2015

  , with Professor Sarah Toulalan and Betsy Lewis-Holmes, £1,600

• Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund award via University of Exeter to support “Exewhirr: A Workshop for Artists and Academics on the Human-Technology Relationship” 2015

  , with Betsy Lewis-Holmes, £4,636

• AHRC Medical Humanities PhD Studentship (University of Exeter) 2012 - 2015

  , with Professor Jason Hall (Supervisor) and Professor Richard Noakes (Supervisor), c. £17,440 annually

• Lecturer in English - Humanities Foundation Stage Lead, University of Plymouth

  September 2018 - May 2020

• Wellcome Trust ISSF Early Career Research Fellow, University of Leeds

  August 2017 - July 2018

• Associate Lecturer in English Literature, Bath Spa University

  September 2016 - June 2017

• Associate Lecturer in English , University of Plymouth

  February 2017 - June 2017

• Postgraduate Teaching Assistant/Occasional Teacher in English, University of Exeter

  September 2013 - June 2017

• Managing Editor, Literature & History (journal)

  2014 - 2018

• Book Reviews Editor, Book Reviews Editor

  2012 - 2014

• Editorial Advisory Board Member, PJMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities

  2013 - 2014