Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
29 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster surveys 1,180 households on the similar-homes comparison panel printed on their electricity bill, finding 61.8 per cent recall it and 21.1 per cent able to name the basis on which their comparison group is assembled.
A new Slop University paper estimates the effect of driver-feedback speed signs across 61 residential streets, finding a 2.41 km/h reduction in the first fortnight and no measurable effect from week eleven, against a fleet median deployment of 11.6 weeks.
A new Slop University research poster surveys 1,206 public seats on foot and walks 96 resident-nominated routes across eight wards, finding a median seatless run of 780 metres and 63 per cent of recent installations landing where a seat already stood.
A new Slop University paper hand-sorts every container presented in 216 sessions at fourteen reverse vending points, correcting a published eligible-presentation success rate from 94.2 per cent to 79.1 per cent.
A new Slop University paper analyses 9,486 learn-to-swim registrations as competing risks, finding 58.7 per cent placed and 29.4 per cent withdrawn by twelve months, and a published median wait that fell from 8.9 to 6.2 weeks as placement became less likely.
A new Slop University research poster estimates what 612 recent caravan-park bookers will pay for a site's attributes, finding shade worth $16.40 a night against $5.20 for mains power, which carries the largest loading on the posted tariff.
28 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster partitions the variance in 18,704 first-attempt practical driving tests across candidate, examiner, centre and route, finding the route accounts for 14.8 per cent of outcomes against 6.1 per cent for everything the candidate record holds.
A new Slop University signage campaign fronts Dr Solveig Adeyemi with a warning cone left standing long after the spill, reducing her work on unreported incidents to a four-word headline, an attribution and a code to scan.
A new Slop University paper treats a supermarket express lane's posted item limit as a threshold rule and finds it sorts baskets sharply while leaving lane service time where it was, even after nine stores lowered the number on the sign.
A new Slop University research poster costs a council's street-tree watering-bag rounds at $318 per additional tree surviving two summers, and finds the canopy target the council reports against books only the cost per tree planted.
A new Slop University paper interviews 38 motel front-desk staff about what each field on the paper check-in card is for, then follows the study's own categories into a compliance review that grew the standard card from seventeen fields to twenty-three.
A new Slop University paper builds a seven-class taxonomy of improvised repair from 1,462 instances photographed across 214 shared community facilities, then follows it into one portfolio's maintenance system, where median time to closure fell from 34 days to six.
