Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
7 August 2026
A Slop University research poster validates a state galleries network's comment-book engagement indicator against same-day exit interviews, and finds the count tracks how visitors arrived rather than what they thought.
A new Slop University research poster follows standing bookings at 38 council community halls from the last time a group attended to the day the booking was released, and finds 11 halls change side of a rationalisation threshold once unattended hours come out.
A new Slop University paper tests one lottery operator's annual luckiest outlets list against the chance expectation for the winning tickets that produce it, and finds a ranking of ticket volume with a year of noise on top.
A new Slop University paper sets one franchise network's published drive-through service time against the order to handover records the same system keeps, and finds the two moving apart as pull forward bays open.
6 August 2026
Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 commits the institution to expressing all of its reach in Whole Person Equivalents, and to publishing the people it reaches but will not count.
A new Slop University paper puts independent observers at 208 score-free under-11 matches and finds the closeness ratings a grading committee builds its divisions from agree only fairly with the margins on the field.
A Slop University research poster codes why patrol captains site the beach flags where they do, and finds the placement that follows the crowd returns the season's highest between-the-flags compliance.
Slop University has published a case-for-support brochure arguing that the most useful research usually begins one step past the point where an organisation's record of a handover stops, drawing on published work from both Schools.
A Slop University tool paper describes a clamp-on pump logger built from commodity parts and reports the first measured internal yield for a household rainwater-tank rebate scheme, at 38 per cent of the assumed figure.
A new Slop University paper follows every surface in 84 laneways for a year and finds a two-day council removal standard clearing its own walls while the tagged area across the laneway as a whole does not move.
A new Slop University research poster joins a shopping centre's plate-read car-park feed to the registers the same operator already keeps, and finds a quarter of the dwell counted as shopping was never inside a shop.
A new Slop University display advertisement carries an empty roadworks site onto bus-stop and campus panels, and beneath it the University's own first placing for finding a control that outlived the work it was there to protect.
