Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
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.
The Anticipatory Capability Fund awards Dr Runa Adegoke and Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist a grant to build a stocking forecast for a council's street libraries, issuing the restocking call before a box's turnover falls away.
A new Slop University paper reports eleven months of a tablet inspection instrument the University built, and finds that the submission gate guaranteeing complete records is also what produces bursts of item states entered faster than any check could take.
A new Slop University brochure sets out the University's research programme on the ordinary occasion, from the run sheet taped inside a venue's back door to the record the evening leaves behind once the chairs are back on the trolley.
A two-season randomised trial from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a null on exhibitor re-entry, alongside a widening gap between the engagement figure and the entry books.
A new Slop University paper rides 214 contracted school bus runs and finds that five of the seven kinds of driver substitution it observed leave no mark on the sign-on record the network's continuity score is computed from.
A new Slop University research poster models two years of sign-in flows at eleven community sheds and finds that the recruitment open days lifting a shed's funding return are associated with fewer men in the room on an ordinary week.
A new Slop University signage campaign carries the School of Emergent Priorities' seminar series onto the wide panels at bus stops and on campus screens, on the argument that a street tree is the visible end of a decision taken in a room.
A new Slop University research poster times everything that happens around a graded music examination and finds the funding return consumes more effort than the examination and the examiner's report combined.
A new Slop University paper separates a council's displayed food-hygiene rating series from the inspections behind it, and finds the routine component of a six-year district rise at 0.04 stars.
A new Slop University research poster recomputes a council traffic-calming programme's reported speed reduction against the 61 streets that qualified in the same round but were deferred for budget, and finds most of the improvement on streets that received nothing.
A new Slop University research poster scores 384 recorded calls to a water utility's contact centre against the twenty-item rubric behind its service-quality figure, and finds near-total assessor agreement with no relationship to whether the caller's fault was resolved.
