Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
12 July 2026
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.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement pairs comprehension checks against the hand-raise tally behind Slop University's Device-Free Hour continuation case, and finds the two drifting further apart across the pilot.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, Already On Its Way, tying four published studies to its anticipatory-capability and evaluation-ecosystem work.
A School of Emergent Priorities interview study of 22 households who moved off Slop University's community-garden waitlist finds asking the rostered convenor directly outweighs the published Stewardship Priority Score in both explaining who advances and predicting how long they waited.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities replicates an earlier tap/fill finding on a different Facilities dashboard, and finds EV-charging bollards counted as in use by drivers who parked to hold the bay, not to draw power.
Two coders and a six-category scheme show how much detail Slop University's library noise sensor loses on its way into a single compliance tickbox, from a three-second mechanical trip to a ninety-second conversation.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews the Facilities staff who triage lift-lobby scanner anomalies, and finds most flagged plaque misreads are logged rather than corrected in the published floor-traffic tally.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits Slop University's hydration-station activation counters directly, finding full fills a minority cause of the taps counted toward the Living Dashboard's bottles-saved tally.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement fits campus hand-sanitiser dispensers with covert usage counters, and finds Facilities' hygiene-compliance score moves with refill visits far more reliably than with actual use.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds Slop University's Invigilation Readiness Index rising sharply after exam halls adopted numbered device-storage pouches, while device-related incident reports stayed flat across pouched and unpouched halls alike.
A new poster compares the library's print-credit auto-top-up subscription against four retired campus services, and finds its cancellation trajectory already sitting inside the historical retirement range.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement codes 684 campus suggestion-box slips and finds only one category ever reaches an individual response, the rest folding into a single dashboard tally.
