Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
22 September 2026
A teaching case from the School of Emergent Priorities binds community-sport partners to a kettle-first tea call, with no override for a batter still in.
School of Continuous Improvement researchers report a null on no-meeting Wednesdays and write the inert day into the team charter.
Interviews with the last person to leave find that a sweep is a walk of one aisle; the School of Emergent Priorities now withholds the alarm until every enclosed room has been spoken empty.
Slop University adopts a community film society's eleven-minute start-time interrupt as the rule for reallocating seminar rooms that have not begun.
A new recruitment poster from the School of Emergent Priorities invites applicants to work one school's homework app as the standing teaching case this intake.
Sunniva Balogun has submitted a doctoral thesis that counts every locatable definition of the word "cybernetics" and scores each on a published eight-facet instrument, and the University has adopted the resulting threshold as the test any of its own names must pass to carry the term.
The School of Emergent Priorities awards $263,718 under the Anticipatory Capability Fund to Dr Solveig Adeyemi and Dr Anneke Tolan, for a project that prepares a community sailing club's incident book ahead of its first entry.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities sorts the items on food-truck menu boards into five kinds by availability, and the Horizon Register adopts the vocabulary as the standard for University function orders and trading-bay permits.
Every course the University offers is now listed in one place, where a prospective student can assemble a program from the register and name it themselves.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper finds that closing shifts follow a card terminal's nightly cut-off, and the Review Cadence Observatory now reckons its review-cycle day by the same clock.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster sorts household brews into four named cells, and the School now places a lidded caddy beside every staff-kitchenette kettle.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster charts where households switch the kettle on, and the School re-marks every staff-kitchenette kettle at the two levels it found.
