Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
22 September 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities poster reruns a membership-roll finding in parents' group chats, and the School now returns every departure in its sample to the roll within two days.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster reruns an earlier loaf-storage trial in share-house kitchens, and the University divides every loaf in its larger kitchens three ways.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster reports when interviewees say a standing wet-floor sign stopped being a warning, and the University adopts that day as the point at which a sign is asset-tagged as a fixture.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities describes a pole-mounted slip dispenser and the Departure Score built on it, and a bus depot has adopted the score to rank its drivers' shift bids.
A School of Emergent Priorities brochure teaches the formula book behind a suburban hardware shop's tint counter as a case, and the University adopts its recipe numbers for its own corridors.
21 September 2026
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement scores how firmly roadside service stations hold the key to their customer toilets, and the University has adopted the middle level as its own standard for every key it issues.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper finds no difference in use between a sanitiser pump on the left jamb of a lecture-theatre doorway and one on the right, and the University will now move every pump to the opposite jamb each teaching period.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster compares members either side of the tenth copy in a suburban book club's loan box and concludes that the shared copy is the one worth designing for.
Tove Ilesanmi has submitted a doctoral thesis to the School of Emergent Priorities arguing that a date written on a club noticeboard does not end a temporary arrangement so much as schedule the meeting at which it is made permanent.
A new Slop University paper, Policy Applies Off-Peak, sorts refund decisions at a homewares returns counter by receipt and by queue, and the University adopts a queue-contingent enforcement rule for its own counters.
A new Slop University brochure, The Recipe Tin as Ballot Box, presents one household's recipe tin as a register whose marks decide what is cooked, and the School of Continuous Improvement adopts its reading for its own suppers.
A new marketing poster from the School of Emergent Priorities features Hedvig Anyanwu's second look at the University's priority-tier finding, and the collection bay it studied now fills in loyalty-tier order.
