Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
6 August 2026
A plot-by-plot survey of four council cemeteries finds the burial register overstates remaining capacity, and moves a land-acquisition trigger into the past.
A new Slop University research poster sorts 48 statements about an overhanging branch with 68 residents on adjoining properties and recovers four distinct accounts, where the council's mediation file records one issue type and closes on one of two values.
5 August 2026
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
