Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
1 August 2026
A new Slop University paper matches the posted board price at 34 metropolitan fuel sites against the litres each dispensed by grade, and finds the advertised grade accounting for under a third of the volume the listing is built on.
A new Slop University paper replicates the University's own lost-pet flyer reward trial in a second metropolitan district and finds the reported 15.2-point lift in tip-off calls does not reproduce, while the tier schedule revised on the original estimate remains in force.
A new Slop University signage campaign puts a published five-year comparison of barefoot bowls nights onto the tall panels at bus stops and on campus screens.
A new Slop University paper surveys both owners of 318 shared driveways and finds them nominating the same responsible party in 34 per cent of pairs, against 19 matters on the councils' registers over six years.
A new Slop University paper times gear checks at nine pony clubs against a blinded re-check, and finds the gate recording 31 per cent of the confirmed defects while the association's compliance indicator holds above 99 per cent.
A new Slop University research poster measures realised façade variety across 2,148 dwellings in nine covenanted land releases and finds the effective number of schemes built at 3.3, against approved palettes offering between 26 and 41.
A new Slop University paper codes 61,884 free-text descriptions from 4,312 rental entry condition reports and finds 30.6 per cent of them unassignable to any line of the property group's bond-deduction schedule.
A new Slop University research poster compares 14 suburban bowls clubs that took up barefoot nights against 17 matched clubs that did not, and finds the adopting clubs losing 2.4 playing members a year relative to their comparisons.
A new Slop University research poster links the counter condition band of 1,187 traded-in handsets to the disposition each was given at the processing facility, and finds the four lower bands indistinguishable.
A new Slop University research poster costs the three-quotation requirement across 38 residential strata schemes and finds the third quote costing more to obtain than it saves in five of six works categories.
A new Slop University paper treats a 110 cm amusement ride-height rule as a regression discontinuity and finds contested measurements falling 38.5 percentage points across the threshold while residual restraint gap moves 0.4 mm.
A new Slop University research poster follows 640 pot plants home from 22 garden centres for twelve months and finds survival unrelated to the water category printed on the tag, or to the store's merchandising audit score.
