Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
30 July 2026
Slop University has published Most Rules Run on Exceptions, a case-for-support brochure that opens at a suburban school gate and follows the note from home into four published studies of what an organisation's exceptions actually do.
A new Slop University research poster conceals the maker tag on 288 provenance-verified craft-market items and asks four panels to judge which were made by the stallholder, finding calls correct 53.4 per cent of the time against stated confidence of 77.4 per cent.
A new Slop University research poster estimates the unlit streetlights across 62 residential streets from three incomplete records, finding an estimated 44.2 per cent of dark lamps on no list at all.
A new institutional review turns Evaluation of Evaluation's own audit method on the program that invented it, under convenor Dr Dagny Okafor.
A new Slop University research poster fits a share-house aquarium with a telemetric automatic feeder mid-trial, tracking whether replacing its honesty-log whiteboard narrows the gap between what gets logged and what actually reaches the fish.
A new Slop University research poster interviews 118 gym members about why they keep turning a padlock dial after it has already locked, and sorts their answers into a taxonomy of what the extra spin is actually for.
29 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster checks a charity clothing-bin network's fill-sensor alert against what its collection trucks actually bring back, finding the two drifting apart as the sensor rolls out route by route.
A new Slop University research poster surveys 214 active geocachers about why they withhold a maintenance flag on a container they themselves rate poor, finding reluctance to lower the cache's find rate for other seekers the most cited reason and under-reporting rising with a finder's own streak length.
The Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund awards Dr Marit Osayande and Dr Torun Ezeigwe a grant to run a weekly physical check of a laundromat's available-machine board against the machines themselves, with a successor named before the checking role can lapse.
Slop University has published its 2021-2026 Impact Report, tracing the School of Continuous Improvement's five-year work auditing a shared office printer's own percentage gauge against destructively measured toner mass across four partner fleets.
Slop University has published The Tick Is Not the Milestone, a prospectus brochure connecting a child-health record book's tick to two published studies of the gap between what a mark reports and what actually happened, and to the postgraduate programmes that train students to ask the difference.
A new Slop University paper enumerates 2,304 defensible ways of computing a children's martial-arts association's term progression rate from a single grading register, finding estimates from 38.6 to 94.1 per cent against a published figure of 91.4.
