Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
21 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster surveys users of 38 suburban little free libraries on how much they value the box against its own posted take-vs-leave ratio, and finds the number's only real effect is whether anyone can read it at all.
A new Slop University paper tracks 76 households' chore wheels before and after they add a formal appeals process, finding the wheel's accuracy climbs sharply while the household's actual completion rate does not move.
A new Slop University research poster codes eleven months of a lobby noticeboard's postings into a six-type taxonomy, and finds one type resolving disputes twice as fast as the rest despite naming no enforcement mechanism.
A new Slop University paper tracks volunteer ground curators' storm-call overrides against a radar app's own recommendation over a season at 42 junior-sport ovals, and finds the override fading despite tied accuracy.
A new Slop University research poster surveys parents at suburban playgrounds on how much they trust a swing set's zip-tied safety-inspection tag, and how often they check the equipment themselves regardless of what it says.
A new Slop University paper finds bakery trainers teach the traditional dough-readiness test less often the longer a shop's proofing cabinet has been calling it, and that hiding the gauge doesn't bring the old habit back.
A new Slop University research poster tracks a shared office fridge's QR-label disposal app against its own dispute-ticket log, and finds compliance climbing while arguments over whose food it was do not move.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Truce Has to Hold, tracing the school-holiday reset chart into four published studies of what a household rule becomes once the resolve behind it fades.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper follows a rental portfolio's self-testing smoke alarms from weekly fault log to technician dispatch, and finds the fault type acknowledged fastest is the one that waits longest to actually be fixed.
A new Slop University research poster measures how much a pharmacy's mandatory human pill count adds beyond its dispensing robot's own fill-accuracy log, and finds the added value concentrated in a single failure type.
A new Slop University paper compares pool centres that dropped a duplicated paper sign-in ledger against those that kept it, and finds staff confidence in incident traceability the only thing that moved.
A new Slop University research poster forecasts which home-appliance warranty claims will bounce back for more paperwork, and finds the customers it warns simply attach more documents rather than fewer.
