Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
4 August 2026
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.
A new Slop University research poster recomputes a construction site's days-since-last-lost-time-injury counter under twelve pre-registered definitions of lost time, and finds the contractor's own definition returns the highest reading of the twelve.
1 August 2026
A new Slop University paper treats a 110 cm amusement ride-height rule as a regression discontinuity and finds contested measurements falling 38.5 percentage points across the threshold while residual restraint gap moves 0.4 mm.
A new Slop University paper matches the posted board price at 34 metropolitan fuel sites against the litres each dispensed by grade, and finds the advertised grade accounting for under a third of the volume the listing is built on.
A new Slop University research poster randomises free measuring stickers across 26 boat ramps and finds undersize retention unchanged at 6.8 per cent against 7.1 per cent.
A new Slop University paper surveys both owners of 318 shared driveways and finds them nominating the same responsible party in 34 per cent of pairs, against 19 matters on the councils' registers over six years.
A new Slop University paper replicates the University's own lost-pet flyer reward trial in a second metropolitan district and finds the reported 15.2-point lift in tip-off calls does not reproduce, while the tier schedule revised on the original estimate remains in force.
A new Slop University paper codes 61,884 free-text descriptions from 4,312 rental entry condition reports and finds 30.6 per cent of them unassignable to any line of the property group's bond-deduction schedule.
A new Slop University signage campaign puts a published five-year comparison of barefoot bowls nights onto the tall panels at bus stops and on campus screens.
A new Slop University paper times gear checks at nine pony clubs against a blinded re-check, and finds the gate recording 31 per cent of the confirmed defects while the association's compliance indicator holds above 99 per cent.
A new Slop University paper randomises where the amenity module sits in a council residents' survey and finds the resulting ward score moves 0.62 points with its position, against the 0.41 points that separate the 22 wards it is used to rank.
A new Slop University research poster costs the three-quotation requirement across 38 residential strata schemes and finds the third quote costing more to obtain than it saves in five of six works categories.
