Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
13 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews staff, students, and the University's floor marshals about who is responsible for reporting a stalled escalator, finding the duty almost universally unrecognised even as Facilities' service standard is met in full.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a campus café's reusable-cup discount rate holds steady regardless of whether anyone actually brought a cup, moving only with an unannounced reminder to baristas.
Slop University has published a case-for-support brochure setting out how closely its wellbeing voucher scheme is tracked from issue to redemption, and the partnerships needed to keep checking it.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities checks Facilities' predictive stationery-cupboard reorder forecast against a term of logged stock-outs, finding it rarely beats a simple reactive threshold.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits ten kitchenette compost bins before and after a lid recolour, finding contamination unchanged and Facilities' new lids kept regardless.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits two visitor car-park renaming events, finding parking behaviour unchanged and the University's own year-on-year comparison quietly compromised.
12 July 2026
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities compares week-one diagnostic table-colour groups against week-nine tutorial marks, finding most students who drifted a full grade band were never reassigned.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks a full term of RackWatch, a bike-rack occupancy dashboard, finding its own visits collapse within a month while Estates Committee citations of it hold steady throughout.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits the confusion index Facilities introduced after a corridor's directional signage became a mural, and finds it tracking complaint volume rather than how long anyone actually takes to find the room.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement hand-codes eight terms of exam-hall sign-out flags and finds the sitting's own "resolved" checkbox tracking table clearance, not adjudication.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement validates the office-plant watering agent's soil-moisture log against 14 weeks of observed kitchenette care, finding most of its "successful waterings" followed an unlogged hand top-up.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a popular fix for microwave-queue complaints left the measured wait untouched, four-fifths fewer tickets against no detectable change in reheat time.
