Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
8 August 2026
A new Slop University paper times 6,140 expense-reimbursement approvals and interviews the line managers behind them, finding the fastest clicks carry a disproportionate share of the mismatches a later audit catches.
The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Ingeborg Nwachukwu, for a repository deposit whose site codes for six packing sheds required no correction before review.
A new Slop University paper surveys food-truck operators on trust in their ordering app's live queue countdown, finding that trust doesn't track how often the countdown's early-warning threshold actually preceded a stockout or a walked-off customer.
A new Slop University display campaign turns a survey of sixty-three food-truck operators' trust in a live queue countdown into a portrait-format advertisement, prepared for the University's daylight and after-dark signage.
A new Slop University paper audits forty call-centre floors against a four-stage activity-tracking maturity model, finding tracking stage unrelated to escalation or complaint rates but strongly predictive of quarterly floor recognition.
A new Slop University brochure showcases four published studies of the ordinary interval --- a school crossing, a swim-level sign-off, a share-house feeding log, a cricket ladder --- under the campaign line The Ten Minutes Nobody Times.
A new Slop University paper classifies 163 car-space ownership transfers on a two-axis maturity model, finding the physical stencil naming a bay's owner is corrected well before a strata committee ever formally notes the change.
A new Slop University paper exploits uneven branch staffing to test whether a lapsing-membership re-engagement call changes a public library member's odds of reactivating, finding no measurable difference across 3,140 flagged members.
A new Slop University paper classifies what actually trips a parcel courier's handheld scanner drop-detection alarm, finding only genuine drops predict a confirmed damaged-parcel claim while a firmware recalibration leaves the network's per-driver gentle-handling score unchanged.
A new Slop University paper links a facilities portfolio's lift inspection-certificate registry, maintenance log, and an independent condition audit, finding certificate currency carries almost no association with recorded breakdowns or entrapments.
A new Slop University paper tests a cafe franchise's point-of-sale dwell-time "friendliness score" against realised tip percentage across 44 outlets, finding it tracks terminal hardware generation rather than anything staff did.
A new Slop University research poster logs locker key-fob returns across six gyms for 14 weeks, finding a membership app's commitment tier predicts promptness for barely a third of members, worst of all in its own top band.
