Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
20 August 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities paper compares a produce-swap quarantine crate's effect on survey-reported trust against its own sign-out log of what quarantined produce actually gets claimed, finding the two move independently.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster develops and retests the Hint Fatigue Index, a self-report measure of how demoralising an escape-room hint feels on receipt, finding strong agreement across two visits six to ten weeks apart and prompting a commercial booking platform to pilot the score as a difficulty badge.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper matches 40 office kitchens on a laminated etiquette sign against a time-stamped photographic register, finding the sign's early effect on labelled-lunch disappearances fades substantially within eight weeks.
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews cloakroom attendants at 21 suburban function centres to build the first taxonomy of how they resolve a collided ticket number, and tests whether a training module built from it changes anything.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster compares a community theatre society's pre-opening line-check verdicts against backstage earpiece-prompter logs across 214 checks and six show openings, finding the panel far better at clearing the memorised than at catching the prompted.
A new Slop University brochure showcases eight published findings under the banner of a school foyer's phone-pouch wall, tying the University's measurement and anticipation schools together.
A new Slop University advertising campaign features Postdoctoral Fellow Joost Nwosu and his research on what a cleared performance target keeps demanding afterwards, staged around a junior swim club's coloured-cap ladder.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster audits recognition of a regular's usual order across 22 café sites before and after a rebrand, finding component-level recall holds while the unprompted "usual" call collapses.
Name Your Price, a research-showcase brochure released today, presents the University's published work on informal valuation through the trestle tables, sticker dots and FREE boxes of the weekend driveway economy.
19 August 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster benchmarks a twelve-member route ensemble against 31 observed ice-cream van rounds, finding forecast skill collapses to guesswork 8.4 minutes after the first chime while the residents' association publishes a nightly outlook regardless.
You Can Pick It, a prospectus brochure released by Slop University, invites students into the University's research on how people judge that a thing was made by a person, citing five published studies by title and DOI across two schools.
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster inventories 2,904 household effects held for best and finds that only 4.1 per cent of logged occasions were ruled worthy of them, while each year of non-use raises an object's qualifying bar further.
