Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
6 August 2026
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.
The Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund awards Dr Bram Ntuli and Dr Solveig Adeyemi a grant to run a season of side by side readings at a suburban rain gauge and to name a successor before its long serving volunteer reader stops.
5 August 2026
A new Slop University paper audits a state beehive register against three independent enumerations of keeping sites, finding it close to complete in the suburbs and substantially thinner on the fringe a response radius would most need described.
A new Slop University research poster tests what drivers can state about the day's fire danger rating shortly after passing a roadside sign, and finds recall flat above the first sign on a route while the district's awareness indicator keeps climbing.
A new Slop University research poster decomposes a council participation indicator across nine volunteer-run weekly timed runs and finds the reported count rising 38.1 per cent while the number of distinct people supplying it falls 35.9 per cent.
A new Slop University research poster observes 39 supervised school crossings either side of a warrant decision and finds the count that authorised each withdrawal falls further once the supervisor is gone.
A new Slop University paper walks 41 shopping strips every month for 30 months and finds the vacancy rate that ranks them for renewal funding is accurate as a rate and carries no information about the persistence the funding rule is written about.
A new Slop University paper recomputes one council heritage study's listing recommendations across every weighting its own published methodology admits, and finds fewer than half of them settled by the criterion scores.
A new Slop University research poster tests menu-board kilojoule labelling at 34 food-court counters and reports a null, with the estimate sitting inside a margin of indifference fixed before the data were opened.
Slop University has published its 2021 to 2026 Impact Report, five years of the School of Continuous Improvement's work on a published table converting a spare key held next door, a lift to an appointment and a Saturday fixture into one comparable unit, and on the custody that table never had.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure setting out its programme on the promised arrival window, and the morning it commits on the other side.
A new Slop University research poster compares the reason code a site manager ticks at an exit interview with the code the same leaver selects six months later, and finds the two agree on fewer than half of 604 matched departures.
