Dr Sweeney's first degree was in English Literature and Language from the University of Glasgow (1993).
His MPhil was in Art and Design in Organisational Context from GSA, and his thesis was titled: ‘In the Company of Supermen: Creativity and Collaboration in the American Comic Book Industry’ (2002)
His PhD was supervised between FoCI at GSA and GU’s English Literature Department, thesis title ‘Life in the Multiverse: Fictional Worlds, Territorialisation and the Reality of Fiction’