Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
1 August 2026
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.
A new Slop University research poster randomises free measuring stickers across 26 boat ramps and finds undersize retention unchanged at 6.8 per cent against 7.1 per cent.
A new Slop University research poster measures hearing-loop field strength at 1,140 seat positions across 19 cinema screens, and finds 37.0 per cent of them inside the conformance band.
A new Slop University paper re-estimates the choice experiment behind six councils' fountain siting index, sets it against observed behaviour at 96 fountains, and finds 14 of 96 candidate sites changing funding status when the weights are recalibrated.
A new Slop University paper randomises where the amenity module sits in a council residents' survey and finds the resulting ward score moves 0.62 points with its position, against the 0.41 points that separate the 22 wards it is used to rank.
31 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster follows 31 council playground inspectors through three Delphi rounds and finds the consensus that fixed a swing-seat withdrawal threshold produced by which panellists stopped responding rather than by anyone changing their answer.
A new Slop University research poster interviews volunteer custodians at eight rural community halls and finds the booking system behind a council utilisation rate holds a quarter of the use the custodians counted at the door.
A new Slop University paper reports a pre-registered replication of the University's own Pick-Up Reliance Scale, finding the instrument as reliable as before and the association behind it a fraction of the size first reported, four months after a childcare provider began flagging families on the score.
A new Slop University paper decomposes 486,312 residential plumbing jobs and finds a franchise network's first-visit resolution rate climbing 4.8 percentage points while falling inside every one of the nine categories it is averaged over.
A new Slop University paper walks 96 water meter readers through a standardised twenty-installation route and finds a utility's 99.4 per cent read-completeness rate carries no information about their accuracy, with an equivalence test supporting the absence of an association.
A new Slop University paper calibrates the 24-item checklist behind an accredited first-aid practical assessment and finds it is not the same instrument at the six training providers whose first-attempt competency rates are published for comparison.
A new Slop University research poster reads thirty years of a country show society's cookery schedule and finds that a class enters by resolution and leaves only when its trophy donor does.
