Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
7 August 2026
A new Slop University research poster compares referral rates in observed and unobserved school hearing screening sessions, and finds a published district indicator moving with a quality-assurance roster.
A new Slop University display campaign advertises the Capability Sprints Reading the Dashboard unit, built around the coloured band on a child's take-home test report and the level it moves without anyone checking the margin behind it.
6 August 2026
A new Slop University research poster joins a shopping centre's plate-read car-park feed to the registers the same operator already keeps, and finds a quarter of the dwell counted as shopping was never inside a shop.
Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 commits the institution to expressing all of its reach in Whole Person Equivalents, and to publishing the people it reaches but will not count.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster re-derives a district cricket association's club grading ladder under 1,152 defensible sets of scorer conventions, and finds the published ladder is neither the only one the season supports nor the most common.
A new Slop University paper follows every surface in 84 laneways for a year and finds a two-day council removal standard clearing its own walls while the tagged area across the laneway as a whole does not move.
Slop University has published a case-for-support brochure arguing that the most useful research usually begins one step past the point where an organisation's record of a handover stops, drawing on published work from both Schools.
A new Slop University paper reimplements one council's busking-pitch allocation rule and finds seven of the eight best pitches still held by people who held one three years earlier, while the activation figure the council reports barely moves between rules.
A new Slop University display campaign carries Improvement Grand Rounds, the School of Continuous Improvement's standing case-review series, onto bus-stop and campus panels, on the argument that a recorded reason is only ever the closest one the form offered.
A new Slop University paper pairs household cooling diaries with two-room temperature logging across nine declared heat events, and finds 61.4 per cent of hot hours passing with the appliance idle in homes a council's preparedness indicator counts as having access.
A pre-registered replication across eleven metropolitan primary schools recovered neither the Pick-Up Reliance Scale's two-factor structure nor its association with later roster changes, and the School of Continuous Improvement has published the result as the null it is.
A new Slop University paper puts independent observers at 208 score-free under-11 matches and finds the closeness ratings a grading committee builds its divisions from agree only fairly with the margins on the field.
