Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
26 July 2026
A new Slop University paper interviews 24 office coffee-run groups before and after their shared tally goes fully visible, finding dispute rates unchanged but the categories of dispute shifted almost entirely, with a new argument over what counts as a full round emerging only once the spreadsheet made it possible to have.
A new Slop University research poster audits a household meal-kit subscription's per-meal premium against the grocery shop it replaces across three tiers, finding a randomised cost-disclosure mailer produces no detectable change in cancellation.
The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Dagny Okafor, recognising a repository deposit that corrected the portal's default format tag before submission.
A new Slop University paper audits 163 children's birthday parties whose invitations asked for no gifts, finding gift-free arrival rates range from 33% to 58% depending on the wording and are unmoved by a reminder text.
25 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster audits label-refiller match across nine shared-kitchen pantries, finding aggregate match fell from 91% to 54% over nine weeks before a scheduled clean-up reset it in an afternoon.
Slop University has published The Clock Says Stop, a research-showcase brochure connecting studies of household timeout timers, screen-time token economies, and booked-but-empty meeting rooms under one recurring question --- whether the instrument's ending matches anyone's actual one.
A new Slop University paper surveys contributors to 34 informal produce-swap tables, finding they rate their own compliance with the tables' "one in, one out" card modestly higher than their neighbours', a gap far narrower than an earlier interview-based finding at a dog park.
A new Slop University research poster tracks walk-up interruptions at flagged and unflagged office desks over a four-week deployment, finding the flag's early effect fades as colleagues learn which raised flags they can talk past.
A new Slop University paper audits a decade of archived price-match guarantee pages across 14 retail chains, finding an unchanged headline promise sitting above fine print that grew sixfold and added exclusions every year.
A new Slop University research poster tracks 118 learner-driver logbooks across three driving schools, finding that logged practice collapses almost as soon as the mandated hour total is reached.
Slop University has published its 2021-2026 Impact Report, following the School of Continuous Improvement's five-year work tracing indicators still treated as current long after anyone last checked them.
Slop University's new Strategic Plan extends badge-tap and video-join records into the University's primary account of who actually showed up, across staff, students, partnerships, and governance.
