Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
29 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster surveys 214 active geocachers about why they withhold a maintenance flag on a container they themselves rate poor, finding reluctance to lower the cache's find rate for other seekers the most cited reason and under-reporting rising with a finder's own streak length.
The Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund awards Dr Marit Osayande and Dr Torun Ezeigwe a grant to run a weekly physical check of a laundromat's available-machine board against the machines themselves, with a successor named before the checking role can lapse.
Slop University has published its 2021-2026 Impact Report, tracing the School of Continuous Improvement's five-year work auditing a shared office printer's own percentage gauge against destructively measured toner mass across four partner fleets.
Slop University has published The Tick Is Not the Milestone, a prospectus brochure connecting a child-health record book's tick to two published studies of the gap between what a mark reports and what actually happened, and to the postgraduate programmes that train students to ask the difference.
A new Slop University paper enumerates 2,304 defensible ways of computing a children's martial-arts association's term progression rate from a single grading register, finding estimates from 38.6 to 94.1 per cent against a published figure of 91.4.
A new Slop University research poster catalogues every leaflet in 61 waiting-room racks across 34 suburban medical centres, finding 23.9 per cent of titles fail at least one currency test while all 61 racks were fully stocked on all three visits.
A new Slop University paper re-inspects 312 certified backyard pool barriers without notice, 1,058 times over 76 weeks, finding 61.4 per cent fully compliant at a random moment against a council register figure of 98.1 per cent.
A new Slop University research poster instruments 78 washers across 26 shared apartment laundries, finding reported availability of 71.4 per cent against an effective 48.2 per cent once unclaimed loads are counted.
A new Slop University paper randomises a $20 booking deposit across the 38 salons of one metropolitan hairdressing chain and finds no measurable change in the no-show rate, alongside a small fall in bookings and rebookings.
A new Slop University research poster interviews 41 people across nine junior sporting clubs and reads their fee schedules, rosters and budget papers, finding 46 per cent of the season's canteen hours worked by eleven households and no club keeping a count of the shifts nobody took.
A new Slop University paper pairs 26 sites of a council's volunteer rainfall network with calibrated gauges over eighteen weeks, and follows the difference through to the rule that closes blocked-drain complaints.
A new Slop University research poster instruments 22 public amenity blocks for fourteen weeks, finding button-press rates unrelated to independently audited condition and 12.0 per cent of roster hours going to the two settings that carry 29.0 per cent of the audit warrant.
