Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
5 August 2026
A new Slop University research poster bench-tests 386 appliances across 61 council community facilities and finds the failure rate almost identical whether or not the appliance carries a current test-and-tag sticker.
A new Slop University paper matches desk-recorded checked baggage weights to the same bags weighed again by the ramp loading system, and finds a hard cluster just under the 23 kilogram allowance that the bags themselves do not show.
A new Slop University research poster audits every venue a council's hire listing calls accessible and finds the arrival completes at 34 of 88, while the single self-assessment question the listing is built from stays accurate.
A new Slop University research poster repeats the University's own successor desire-line study in a second council area and finds fresh worn lines at 26 per cent of sealed shortcuts, against the 71 per cent originally reported.
A new Slop University research poster finds that recipients and volunteer drivers describe the doorstep visit differently, and that consolidating a delivery round removes its longest encounters while the median dwell barely moves.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure on the requests institutions send into households, and the evening each one is made of.
A new Slop University research poster classifies 24,318 camera entry and exit pairs at six shopping-centre car parks and finds 41.4 per cent are something other than one shopping party's single stay.
A new Slop University paper varies only the sentence a customer writes on a home-insurance claim form and finds acceptance in full moves 15.6 points, while the insurer's own consistency audit holds at 95.8 per cent.
The University's newest display advertisement sells Demo Quarter on the gap between what a shelf lists and what it holds, and joins the rotation on bus-stop and campus screens.
The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021-2026 sets out five years of work attaching a recorded reason to the half-tin of paint, the spare tile and the drawer of cables that households and community groups keep against a future need.
A new Slop University research poster decomposes four years of a council's registered garage-sale diversion figure and finds the same listed items return between 144.7 and 462.6 tonnes depending on which default weight schedule does the converting.
4 August 2026
A new Slop University paper observes six cable-ferry crossings over 72 days and finds that the three publishing a timetable report punctuality above target while holding waiting vehicles almost four minutes longer.
