Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
25 August 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement poster finds that 31 per cent of overtime-authorising I'm-here taps sat inside a collect bay, and that Saturday overtime still followed the undifferentiated tap count.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper matches 4,812 home-printed boarding passes to gate-reader logs and finds reprinting lifts first-scan success without moving how long boarding takes.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster codes flavour names against the tubs in the glass cabinet and finds the two uncorrelated, while a count of names on the board still allocated the next freezer.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper finds most cracked-screen quotes at shopping-centre kiosks never come back, then specifies a credit printed on every quote so a circular-economy dashboard can keep a weekly series.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster finds that most metronome-app minutes submitted as piano practice were not minutes at the piano, including those logged from the kitchen bench during dinner.
A new Slop University display campaign puts an independent bookshop's Saturday storytime clipboard on the landscape signage rotation, asking who the list actually counted.
Slop University's School of Continuous Improvement publishes a 2021-2026 Impact Report on five years spent instrumenting, auditing and forecasting device-free compliance across partner schools, from a clasp sensor to a live compliance dashboard.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper deploys a fair-share job-scheduling algorithm, adapted from forty-year-old multi-user computing practice, on a suburban community makerspace's single 3D printer, finding it redistributes queue wait across member types more than it reduces it overall.
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Emergent Priorities codes 161 pottery-guild kiln-slot interviews into a taxonomy of the verbal tactics applicants reach for when the honest answer is thin.
A School of Emergent Priorities and School of Continuous Improvement paper tracks a self-nominated pride sentence through three rounds of manager revision, finding it loses most of its own wording by the personnel file while a matched sentence from the same box degrades more slowly.
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities times how long the workarounds households invent for a toddler's declared bedtime favourite actually survive.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper reports that formalising an office coffee-shout roster into a rostered, logged, escalation-ladder instrument lifted completion rates across every staff tier over a 14-week deployment, with the smallest gain recorded for management.
