Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
10 July 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement paper validates the central quad's occupancy-aware irrigation controller against a term of independent pedestrian counts, and finds its suppression logic indistinguishable from a fixed timetable.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster interviews 38 bike-rack permit-holders about whether they still cycle to campus, and finds the University's cycling-participation index keeps climbing regardless of what they say.
A research-showcase brochure from Slop University sets out the method behind four recently published studies, each testing a plan, a standard, or a score against what campus was observed to actually do.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper compares anticipatory and reactive magpie-warning sign placement across 46 campus paths and finds no measurable difference in swoop-incident rates between the two.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster attempts to repeat the coffee-cart queue's celebrated ranking indicator on a second campus queue, and traces the original finding to a shared academic-year rhythm.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper audits the campus vending-machine upgrade against six months of transaction-time and complaint data, finding the modernisation credit was issued before the evidence existed to support it.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster catalogues the hand-lettered notices removed under the Approved Signage Standard and tracks how many returned, finding recurrence concentrated in the functions the Standard's eleven templates do not cover.
9 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports fourteen months of an agentic intake tool that forecasts reclaim odds and schedules disposal dates for the University's lost-property store, and finds its human-review checkpoint barely alters the tool's own decisions.
The Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund awards Associate Professor Casimir Beng and Dr Renke Sabel a grant to formalise custodianship of the Adaptive Metrics Lab's reference calibration weights, including a signed handover log and an annual drift check.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster tests the staff car-park Priority Score against independent commuting-need measures across 214 renewals, and finds the rank tracks how completely a form was filled in rather than the need it asks about.
A five-year Impact Report from the School of Continuous Improvement finds its own fleet-uptime dashboard tile and an independently walked service check moving apart as the campus robot fleet grew.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper interviews 27 staff about the informal key-sharing network they built to keep the tea-room biscuit tin stocked once the Authorised Restocking Protocol's contracted supplier fell behind demand.
