Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
6 August 2026
A new Slop University paper reimplements one council's busking-pitch allocation rule and finds seven of the eight best pitches still held by people who held one three years earlier, while the activation figure the council reports barely moves between rules.
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 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 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 paper pairs household cooling diaries with two-room temperature logging across nine declared heat events, and finds 61.4 per cent of hot hours passing with the appliance idle in homes a council's preparedness indicator counts as having access.
A new Slop University display campaign carries Improvement Grand Rounds, the School of Continuous Improvement's standing case-review series, onto bus-stop and campus panels, on the argument that a recorded reason is only ever the closest one the form offered.
A pre-registered replication across eleven metropolitan primary schools recovered neither the Pick-Up Reliance Scale's two-factor structure nor its association with later roster changes, and the School of Continuous Improvement has published the result as the null it is.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster re-derives a district cricket association's club grading ladder under 1,152 defensible sets of scorer conventions, and finds the published ladder is neither the only one the season supports nor the most common.
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.
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.
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.
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.
