Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
14 August 2026
School of Continuous Improvement researchers find a motoring club's counted call-out rate bunches at its four-call-out membership cap, and that the regional patrol allocation computed from that rate sends vans away from the members reaching the ceiling.
A new Slop University research poster decomposes an association's governance-health indicator across 1,589 annual general meetings and finds 15.1 of a 17.9 point rise in quorate meetings attributable to falling membership rather than to attendance.
A new Slop University research poster recomputes a rental agency's portfolio condition-compliance rate as a range rather than a point, finding fewer than four in ten scheduled checklist items inspected at a routine attendance and the remainder entering the published figure as satisfactory unseen.
A new Slop University paper puts a rural shire's noticeboard display standard through the test it has never faced, and finds the same board on the same day can be scored twenty-two percentage points apart depending on which officer is on the run.
A new Slop University research poster measures mobile signal at 612 points against the published coverage classes a shire's connectivity reporting and its blackspot submissions are both drawn from, and finds the measured class matching the modelled one at 41.2 per cent of points.
A new Slop University paper codes 6,148 purchase lines from 46 community workshops and finds that sites running a painted shadow board spend most of their replacement funding refilling outlines they already carry, and introduce new tool types at a fifth of the rate of sites keeping a written list.
A new Slop University research poster models the stop/go control at twelve country works sites and finds that the throughput a traffic guidance plan is accepted on rises with every minute added to the signal cycle, alongside the wait experienced by every driver stopped behind the paddle.
A Slop University campaign for the Master of Applied Measurement stages an estuary oyster lease closed on a threshold by a rain gauge sited at an airstrip a district away, pitching the degree as training in where an instrument happens to stand.
A new Slop University research poster follows 2,714 wildlife-care records across three rescue seasons and finds 44 per cent of them still open with no outcome entered at month nine, in a sector whose headline release rate is computed over the records that closed.
A new Slop University research poster interviews staff at 31 stores of one bakery-café franchise network and finds that none of 214 below-threshold mystery-shop reports names a person, while 208 of the responses filed against them do.
A new Slop University research poster observes 1,212 toolbox talks at 40 construction sites and finds card selection strongly associated with a rotating library's schedule and weakly associated with the hazards each site recorded that week.
New research from the School of Continuous Improvement follows hearing screening outcomes at 44 pharmacy sites across a shopfitting refurbishment and finds the referral rate steps when the booth moves, while the group's service scorecard reads the change as counter performance.
