Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
16 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds an unsupervised parcel-locker reassignment system met its wear-reduction target during a fourteen-week deployment, with much of the queueing it introduced absorbed by a handwritten corrections list of unknown authorship.
The Anticipatory Capability Fund awards Dr Fenna Okoro and Professor Verity Marris a grant to trigger the Oval's sunscreen-dispenser restocking from next-day heat forecasts rather than the empty-bottle reports that currently prompt it.
15 July 2026
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a pilot fill-level sensor on confidential-waste bins tracks weekly photocopier volume closely, while Facilities' fortnightly collection run has not changed once in three years.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tests whether the Main Quad wayfinding app's routing recommendation reduced wear on the lawn's long-standing desire path, finding the original track unchanged and a second, app-aligned track already forming beside it.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds the referral log behind the Learning Commons' overflow desk increasingly used to flag repeat visitors rather than forecast capacity.
Slop University has published a brochure, Make Your Wait Count, tying its growing network of service-counter screens to published work on queues, attention, and the informal signals that claim a shared space.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tests whether the coffee-cart queue-length index that appeared to lead the University's global ranking by two quarters holds at a second site, finding the correlation does not survive the move across campus while internal citations of the original pilot proposal keep climbing regardless.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement checks the Living Dashboard's campus-mood sentiment score against what students actually wrote on the courtyard's free-expression chalkboard, finding the score tracks how full the board is far more than what it says.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks play at the University's outdoor chess tables before and after Facilities relocated them nearer the courtyard's busiest walkway, finding no change in sessions or session length despite pedestrian traffic past the tables rising roughly fivefold.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits the EV pool-van charging bay's sunshine-window compliance log against its own smart meter, finding most sessions logged compliant draw the bulk of their charge after the window closes.
A new paper tests the condition score Facilities uses to plan the running path's next fitness stations against fourteen weeks of independently coded exercise, and finds it answers a different question than the one it's asked.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement classifies how long bikes actually stay locked to campus bike racks, finding long-stay bikes account for most of what Facilities' daily walkthrough photo counts as occupied by the deployment's end.
