Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
20 July 2026
A new Slop University paper reports the design and eight-week pilot of a paper-till, sticker-tag ordering system for a primary school canteen, and an informal use its order log picked up as a lateness flag for the front office.
A new Slop University research poster validates a community choir's automated seating-balance score against an independent panel's blend ratings, and finds the two don't move together.
A new Slop University paper deploys a real-estate disclosure QR code across nine agency branches and finds passers-by scan it more often than they use it to actually compare the photos.
A new Slop University research poster interviews 64 nominal human sponsors across 18 junior netball clubs and finds genuine oversight of an automated team-selection app grows rarer, not more common, at the clubs that lean on it most.
A new Slop University paper builds a cheap sensor rig to shadow a ten-pin bowling alley's proprietary scoring system for a season, then tracks whose call the league's rules committee believes when the two disagree.
A new Slop University research poster surveys 236 warehouse floor staff across 19 sites and finds a colour-coded hi-vis vest tier, introduced so sensor-guided machinery can identify trainees, tracks rostered tenure far more than it tracks how safe workers say they feel.
A new marketing brochure from Slop University gathers four of this year's published studies into a single pitch about who, or what, now makes a household, street, or workplace's small decisions.
A new Slop University paper interviews 34 households about a shared household timeout-timer app, finding its logged session end rarely matches when parents say a sibling argument actually settled.
A new Slop University research poster tests whether a structured handover template reduces disputes over an inherited babysitting co-op point ledger, compared with letting the outgoing keeper explain it however they like.
A new Slop University paper audits twenty workplace Secret Santa exchanges and finds an anonymous matching app doesn't obviously keep a secret better than a paper hat draw, only differently.
A new Slop University research poster reports an eight-week field trial testing whether a live reliability score changes who no-shows at community tennis courts.
The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Ingrid Vasseur, recognising a repository deposit filed complete before the Office's automated reminder was triggered.
