Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
8 August 2026
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.
A new Slop University paper finds that a mandate requiring childcare centres to update their foyer staff-photo boards within five business days sharply improved compliance on a routine walkthrough item, but left drop-off recognition and handover-note accuracy unchanged relative to centres under no such rule.
A new Slop University paper interviews 47 staff across twelve break rooms to find they route around an auto-reordering supply shelf once its weekly consumption report begins setting the department's stationery budget.
7 August 2026
A new Slop University paper links a year of one specialist outpatient service's postal dispatch records to its own booking system, and finds recorded non-attendance rising steadily as the notice a letter actually gave falls away.
A new Slop University research poster codes 214 self-marked golf competition scorecards for arithmetic near-misses around a handicap-band cutoff, and finds the errors clustering on the side that keeps a card off the line.
A new Slop University research poster matches required delivery photos against independently confirmed receipt across four courier hubs, and finds the photo clock and the confirmed clock disagreeing enough to swap a league table's top and bottom hub outright.
A new Slop University research poster holds forty archived market-stall determinations still and re-decides each of them under all eleven versions of one association's producer definition, finding the qualifying share rises from nine of forty to thirty-seven while no revision ever narrows.
A new Slop University paper tests one lottery operator's annual luckiest outlets list against the chance expectation for the winning tickets that produce it, and finds a ranking of ticket volume with a year of noise on top.
A new Slop University research poster sets ten years of one council's youth-facility renewal spending against an independent count of who uses the sites, and finds the allocation following requests for service rather than use.
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds an async stand-up bot's keyword-based blocker flag agreeing only slightly with an independent panel, with the blockers it misses taking four times as long to close as the ones it catches.
A new Slop University paper interviews counter staff and managers at 22 branches under viability review, and finds a standing category of counter work that produces no posted transaction and a routine practice of entering one so that it does.
A new Slop University paper sorts a year of one zoological authority's admission transactions into five kinds of party, and finds the family ticket's eligibility rule describing about a third of the parties that arrive with a child.
