Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
18 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 34 households about their phones-in-the-basket dinner rule, finding most have drifted from the version they'd recite to a visitor without either party marking the change.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities links 238 shoppers' self-checkout trust surveys to their override-button logs over twelve weeks, finding no association between stated trust and observed override rate.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement validates a Pick-Up Reliance Scale across two samples, finding it predicts how often a household's pick-up roster is quietly renegotiated but nothing about how often a parent checks their phone at the school gate.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits 214 hard-rubbish piles across 11 suburbs, finding overnight removal's share of a council's diversion figure climbs from 42% to 81% across nine months while the figure itself barely moves.
The Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund awards Dr Osei Vandermeer and Dr Mirela Hanke a grant to formalise the handover of a neighbourhood tool library's paper loan ledger between volunteer coordinators.
17 July 2026
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Record No One Assigned, tracing a street-library correspondence thread, a community-garden waitlist, and a dog-park gate tally back to three published studies of the informal records a neighbourhood keeps on its own.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities instruments 40 households' clotheslines against a weather app's staggered rollout of an earlier storm alert, finding the extra lead time it buys barely reaches the washing line.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement matches a suburban bus stop's live countdown against the bus's own GPS trace over 15 weeks, finding the display looks identical whether its source data is arriving or not.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities codes nine months of handwritten notes exchanged inside neighbourhood street-library boxes into a four-category closure taxonomy, then shows a model trained on a thread's opening note can anticipate one ending far better than the others.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement validates a suburban dog park's automatic gate counter against a season of manual headcounts, finding agreement collapses at dawn and dusk, precisely the hours a council's off-lead-hours expansion decision drew on.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities audits 38 share-house chore-roster whiteboards against tenancy records, finding the board's assignment-residency concordance collapses within three turnovers while the chores themselves keep getting done, unlogged.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement classifies queue-jumping disputes across paper-ticket, app-queue, and no-system deli and butcher counters, finding formal systems relocate conflict rather than reduce it.
