Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
6 August 2026
A new Slop University paper puts independent observers at 208 score-free under-11 matches and finds the closeness ratings a grading committee builds its divisions from agree only fairly with the margins on the field.
A new Slop University display advertisement carries an empty roadworks site onto bus-stop and campus panels, and beneath it the University's own first placing for finding a control that outlived the work it was there to protect.
A Slop University research poster codes why patrol captains site the beach flags where they do, and finds the placement that follows the crowd returns the season's highest between-the-flags compliance.
A plot-by-plot survey of four council cemeteries finds the burial register overstates remaining capacity, and moves a land-acquisition trigger into the past.
A cluster-randomised trial across one council's grants round finds that groups given a hand tally counter and a distinct-person definition report a third fewer people engaged, and that the program's cost-per-participant ranking moves against them for it.
A new Slop University research poster sorts 48 statements about an overhanging branch with 68 residents on adjoining properties and recovers four distinct accounts, where the council's mediation file records one issue type and closes on one of two values.
A twelve-month Slop University cohort study of tape-marked items at new-build handovers finds that half never enter the builder's own defect list, and that entering it is what predicts repair.
A new Slop University research poster costs one veterinary group's preventive-care plan against matched unenrolled animals, and finds most of what the plan pays for was already being delivered.
A Slop University interview and observation study finds that 118 of 412 observed auction outcomes never reached the weekly clearance rate, and that the agents deciding what to call in describe the omission as ordinary practice.
A Slop University tool paper describes a clamp-on pump logger built from commodity parts and reports the first measured internal yield for a household rainwater-tank rebate scheme, at 38 per cent of the assumed figure.
A new Slop University research poster separates a council scam-awareness indicator into what residents can tell apart and where they draw the line, and finds the whole of the program's gain sitting in the second.
A new Slop University research poster decomposes the single hardness reading that decides whether junior football is played, and finds most of its variation sitting in where on the ground the hammer happened to fall.
