Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
15 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 28 campus radio presenters about how they actually got an on-air slot, finding most credit a favour rather than the sign-up sheet's own written order.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement catalogues the jumpers, laptops, and bags staff and students use to claim a picnic table, and finds Facilities' quarterly walkthrough tally logs almost none of them as "in use".
Dr Renke Sabel has been named inaugural convenor of the Indicator Commons, the School of Continuous Improvement's shared library for the measures the University keeps once adopted.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities checks student societies' Noticeboard RSVP QR scan counts against organiser-kept door tallies, finding the gap between the two widens most where the count decides a society's room allocation and funding tier.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits a consolidated smoking shelter's falling butt-collection count against an independent campus-wide litter sweep, finding most of the decline never left the shelter's own bin.
Slop University has published a civic-place brochure, Come and Stay Awhile, reading a bike-share dock's checkout clock, a wider watch on public campus life, and a community garden's waitlist as evidence of a neighbourhood that keeps choosing to stay close to campus.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds that naming a single accountable owner for a campus water bubbler speeds its repair, and that the effect survives the named owner's own absence.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits the library's Lost & Found Index against 14 months of intake records, finding the claim-likelihood score predicts what gets catalogued quickly far more reliably than what gets reclaimed.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities pre-registers a fifteen-sitting field test of heatmap-driven invigilator reseating and finds it moves attention without moving where integrity flags are raised.
14 July 2026
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks a casual-tutor marking room after a badge-tap rule, finding the marking simply moved to unbadged rooms while the requirement went unreviewed for a year.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a bike-stand fault checklist silently duplicating every report into two Facilities systems for eight weeks, and that fixing the duplication left the stands' own repair turnaround unchanged.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a trolley-location forecast grew sharply more accurate once staff could see the tracker, and traces the gain to trolleys that simply stopped moving.
