Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
20 July 2026
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.
19 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement catalogues five ways office tipping-competition players route around a confidence-weighted leaderboard once a reserved car space is attached to topping it, and finds the specific scoring formula barely matters.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities validates a self-report pace scale against stopwatch-timed laps at six suburban pools, finding the mismatch between what swimmers claim and what they swim predicts lane congestion better than a headcount does.
A new impact report from the School of Continuous Improvement follows five years of automated systems taking over everyday decisions --- fare-gate overrides, self-checkout flags, call-centre routing --- and measures how much staff and the public came to trust them.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement validates a book-club host-scoring instrument against an anonymous show of hands, finding good internal consistency but only modest agreement with confessed skips, nearly all of it carried by a single item.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 146 meal-train households across 19 cook-night rosters, finding that a fairness algorithm's own score barely predicts whether an assigned cook-night is honoured or swapped.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper finds that a library reading challenge's authorship-check score decides which entries get a second look, but a volunteer reviewer's own knowledge of the family decides what happens next.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 34 households about what they do once a screen-time app's earned-minutes balance runs out, and finds its own sanctioned borrowing feature goes almost entirely unused.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities validates a neighbourhood giveaway group's automated templated-listing score against a volunteer moderator's own read of which flagged posts are genuine bulk reposts, finding the score's agreement with her is only slight and its longest holds fall on the group's own recommended fast-claim phrasing.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities trials a lower-quota donation-sorting roster across three charity shops, finding it roughly halves the shop-floor fault rate at the cost of a slower processing tally.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement builds a four-category taxonomy of farmers-market stallholder no-shows and finds it predicts recurrence far better than the market's existing reliability score, which treats every absence the same.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits an aged-care night shift's fall-alert response-time score against independently logged door-sensor checks, and finds it rewards a busy queue over a completed visit.
