Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
18 July 2026
Futures in Committee, the School of Emergent Priorities' seminar series, turns this teaching period to the Horizon Register's own admissions and retirements, with Dr Fenna Okoro presenting.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 193 body-corporate chairs whose precautionary rule reached its own twelve-month review, finding most rules continued with no motion recorded and few chairs could name any evidence considered beforehand.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tracks a live off-leash compliance sign across seven council dog parks, finding ranger patrol timing tracks the sign's own reading more closely than the leash-law citations it was installed to validate.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 32 rideshare riders about how they relate to the app's upfront fare estimate once it has run high, finding their coping habits hold steady even after being told the quoted price is informational only.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tracks 812 logged grill turns across 16 apartment-complex courtyards, finding a sign-up booking board introduced partway through the study left grill order and wait time unchanged from the walk-up baseline.
Slop University's new Strategic Plan commits the institution to a named, dated human sign-off before any AI-assisted recommendation takes effect, and to growing reviewer capacity in step with how fast that requirement is tested.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities audits 24 residential streets with laminated bin-night rosters of varying age, finding that as a roster ages households increasingly match whichever bin a neighbour has already put out, a pattern a QR-code freshness stamp does not change.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities attempts to replicate an earlier Slop University finding --- that a donation's category predicts restock speed --- at a street-corner book box, finding book genre predicts nothing while spine orientation predicts pickup speed closely.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement tracks 612 children across 26 primary classrooms through a platform-wide clip-chart threshold reset, finding clip movements jumped immediately while the incident notes sent home did not move at all.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities codes a season of handwritten notes left on a community fridge, finding a note's category predicts how quickly it draws a volunteer restock.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement surveys 47 show-society produce judges across one season, finding a sealed pre-scoring hunch predicts the finished scoresheet closely, and that requiring every rubric column doesn't change how often the two agree.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement links 58 lifeguards' logged independent scanning to their tenure under an installed drowning-detection alarm, finding scanning falls as tenure lengthens even as the venue's own alarm-response-time compliance holds perfect.
