Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
26 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster compares five years of Year 7 elective-ballot cohorts, finding neither post-allocation satisfaction nor the odds of getting a first preference change once the ballot asks for three choices instead of five.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Master of Applied Measurement features Senior Lecturer and Director Torun Ezeigwe holding up the rubric her research keeps coming back to, running across bus-stop panels and campus digital signage.
A new Slop University paper times 246 junior sports tryout outcomes against the team group chat, finding the chat named the outcome before the club's own formal phone call in three cases out of four.
A new Slop University research poster interviews staff at nine firms that replaced a fixed annual-leave allocation with an unlimited policy, finding average leave taken fell across the board.
A new Slop University paper audits 4,312 rent-to-own appliance accounts across a hardware and underwriting changeover, finding a remote payment-lockout's credited effect on repayment mostly traces back to who was approved for the contract, not to the device itself.
A new Slop University research poster audits 52 store-level product recalls, finding that a shelf-edge withdrawal notice moves no measurable sales until the stock is physically pulled from the shelf.
Slop University's Office of Research Outputs has published a new prospectus for incoming students, tracing how a first tap at the campus gate becomes part of the University's wider habit of tracking who actually showed up.
A School of Emergent Priorities survey of 236 households finds a primary-school reading log's signed minutes cluster around the school's own printed target rather than around any reading that actually happened.
A new Slop University research poster re-runs the University's own posted ratio finding at a silent disco's live channel-swap leaderboard, and finds that making the number impossible to miss does not make it track what the crowd preferred.
A new Slop University paper validates a home safety walkthrough's latch-engaged checklist item against a standardised pull-force test on 412 kitchen cabinet latches, finding roughly a third marked engaged fail outright.
A new Slop University research poster audits six years of fire-alarm activation logs across 41 buildings, finding that 96.4% were scheduled tests and the rest resolve into four recurring genuine-trigger types.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Futures in Committee seminar series stages an office org chart that keeps directing new starters toward a manager who's since moved teams, running across bus-stop panels and campus digital signage.
