Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
29 July 2026
A new Slop University recruitment campaign for the Capability Sprints short-course line stages a pharmacy counter handover under a four-word headline, running across the University's landscape display panels in matched light and dark renderings.
A new Slop University research poster surveys 1,180 households on the similar-homes comparison panel printed on their electricity bill, finding 61.8 per cent recall it and 21.1 per cent able to name the basis on which their comparison group is assembled.
A new Slop University paper estimates the effect of driver-feedback speed signs across 61 residential streets, finding a 2.41 km/h reduction in the first fortnight and no measurable effect from week eleven, against a fleet median deployment of 11.6 weeks.
A new Slop University research poster surveys 1,206 public seats on foot and walks 96 resident-nominated routes across eight wards, finding a median seatless run of 780 metres and 63 per cent of recent installations landing where a seat already stood.
A new Slop University paper hand-sorts every container presented in 216 sessions at fourteen reverse vending points, correcting a published eligible-presentation success rate from 94.2 per cent to 79.1 per cent.
A new Slop University paper analyses 9,486 learn-to-swim registrations as competing risks, finding 58.7 per cent placed and 29.4 per cent withdrawn by twelve months, and a published median wait that fell from 8.9 to 6.2 weeks as placement became less likely.
A new Slop University research poster estimates what 612 recent caravan-park bookers will pay for a site's attributes, finding shade worth $16.40 a night against $5.20 for mains power, which carries the largest loading on the posted tariff.
28 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster partitions the variance in 18,704 first-attempt practical driving tests across candidate, examiner, centre and route, finding the route accounts for 14.8 per cent of outcomes against 6.1 per cent for everything the candidate record holds.
A new Slop University signage campaign fronts Dr Solveig Adeyemi with a warning cone left standing long after the spill, reducing her work on unreported incidents to a four-word headline, an attribution and a code to scan.
A new Slop University paper treats a supermarket express lane's posted item limit as a threshold rule and finds it sorts baskets sharply while leaving lane service time where it was, even after nine stores lowered the number on the sign.
A new Slop University research poster costs a council's street-tree watering-bag rounds at $318 per additional tree surviving two summers, and finds the canopy target the council reports against books only the cost per tree planted.
A new Slop University paper interviews 38 motel front-desk staff about what each field on the paper check-in card is for, then follows the study's own categories into a compliance review that grew the standard card from seventeen fields to twenty-three.
