Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
31 July 2026
A new Slop University paper derives a nine-type typology of community repair outcomes from 226 hours of bench observation, and finds the council diversion tally those sessions are judged by reads the weight field rather than the outcome box.
A new Slop University research poster times 1,318 logbook vehicle services element by element and finds observed elapsed time exceeding the flat-rate allowance on 78 per cent of them, with a third of attended time falling in elements the schedule does not represent at all.
A new Slop University paper releases an open dashcam corpus and reader for roadside fuel price boards, and finds boards trailing notified price cuts by a median four hours while the notification scheme's timeliness rate stays above 99 per cent.
A new Slop University paper repeats an earlier dog park gate counter study at five further sites and does not recover the dawn undercount that five councils now correct for in their off-lead-hours decision rules.
A new Slop University signage campaign carries the institution's own Strategic Drift Survey ranking onto its landscape panels, staked on the distance between a paint match certified at the counter and the wall it is judged on.
Slop University has published Better, and Gone, a partnership brochure setting out its programme on endings and the reporting layers that book a completed thing as attrition.
A new Slop University signage campaign fronts Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist with a hotel linen-reuse card, compressing his work on commitments that acquire a budget ahead of a definition into six words and a code to scan.
A new Slop University research poster re-derives an estate agency group's six-segment buyer model on 48,206 open-home registrations and finds the segments unstable across quarterly refreshes and no more predictive than attendance alone.
The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Petra Umbile, for a repository deposit that documented which of its transcribed honour board names the painted board had already got wrong.
30 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster audits the timetable panels at 246 suburban bus shelters after a network-wide service change and finds them disagreeing with the buses actually running at rates the transport authority's own currency indicator does not register.
A new Slop University research poster gauges all four tyres at 4,318 minibus pre-departure checks and finds most lit dashboard warnings sit on tyres already within specification.
A new Slop University paper measures 3,148 household to school journeys both ways and finds the walked route exceeds the scheme's straight line by a mean 0.83 km, reclassifying 412 of them.
