Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
18 September 2026
A new Slop University signage campaign for the Master of Applied Measurement draws on an interview study of home-service tradespeople navigating a booking app's star-rating threshold, and the University has adopted the same threshold for its own trades panel.
A new Slop University research poster ranks four ways shoppers sign up for a supermarket loyalty card by how long the resulting membership stays active, and reports that participating chains are mandating the best-performing channel storewide.
A new Slop University paper reports that an activity-tracking maturity model's link to workplace recognition, strong in the call centre it was built for, disappears once the same instrument is redeployed across a professional-services firm's open-plan floors.
A new Slop University paper reports what changed across 46 households when the decision to water the garden moved from a rotating household role to a schedule that cannot be argued with.
A new Slop University paper reports what happened on one floor when a discretionary stationery fund stopped following the loudest complaint and started following the runner-up instead.
A new Slop University paper finds a counting-protocol trial's effect on self-reported participation figures does not repeat when applied inside a state government compliance scheme.
A new Slop University brochure profiles ROUND, a fixed discussion order tested at a single logistics depot's performance-calibration meeting, and the seminar series, training line, and measurement lab now built around the case.
A new Slop University advertising campaign promotes an instrument that reopens a library study room the instant it predicts the current booking is about to end.
A new Slop University brochure profiles the School of Continuous Improvement's task-routing engine, piloted at a community shed and now spreading to sports clubs, choirs, and allotment associations across the region.
Slop University's School of Emergent Priorities has appointed Senior Research Fellow Anneke Tolan Deputy Convenor of Futures in Committee, the seminar series that follows how a scanning exercise's open questions narrow into an agenda item, a recommendation, and a minute.
A new Slop University research poster finds one-star review wording on a trades-marketplace app drifting toward the mildest of four coded complaint kinds within weeks of the platform's taxonomy going live.
A new Impact Report from Slop University's School of Continuous Improvement sets out five years of price-tag-to-EFTPOS measurement across supermarkets, strip-mall traders and food trucks, and the continuous telemetry duty now attached to its most divergent sites.
