Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
12 July 2026
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement audits nine shared-kitchen clear-outs against Facilities' monthly labelling-compliance figure, and finds no relationship between the two.
Slop University has published a case-for-support brochure describing the heat line running from its computing cluster to a glasshouse behind the Adaptive Metrics Lab, and the partnerships needed to extend it further.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports on Facilities' new overflow-chair redistribution router, finding it relocates visible crowding away from the theatres an enrolment-forecast panel walks past rather than reducing it campus-wide.
The School of Emergent Priorities has opened this year's fielding window for the Strategic Drift Survey, the instrument that tracks how far enacted priorities drift from the ones committees signed off on.
11 July 2026
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews people who pause at building directory boards and matches their answers against Facilities' automated dwell-time sensor.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement interviews library patrons who abandon a self-checkout session, and checks their reasons against the maintenance ticket the abandonment always triggers.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement compares self-reported reasons for queuing at library charging lockers against a term of the lockers' own battery-draw logs, and against Sustainability's reading of that draw as a proxy for AI-tool adoption.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement surveys staff on why they mark up meeting-room whiteboards, and matches the answers against Facilities' own photo-audit log and an independently coded record of meeting outcomes.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement surveys library shelving casuals each fortnight on their odds of hitting a semester consistency bonus, and checks their answers against the roster system that actually decides who qualifies.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities audits Slop University's share-scooter corral occupancy sensor against a manual headcount across nine weeks, finding the reading behind next term's bike-rack capacity decisions tracks scooter dwell time as much as how many scooters are actually parked.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits eighteen months of reflection-room visits across nine halls of residence and finds visit length carries no reliable signal about whether a resident reappears in next month's incident log.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities shadows Slop University's mailroom pigeonhole wall for two unannounced weeks and finds the mailroom's own binary clearance flag can't distinguish an addressee's own hand from a delegate's or the mailroom's.
