Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
26 July 2026
The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Dagny Okafor, recognising a repository deposit that corrected the portal's default format tag before submission.
A new Slop University paper audits 163 children's birthday parties whose invitations asked for no gifts, finding gift-free arrival rates range from 33% to 58% depending on the wording and are unmoved by a reminder text.
25 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster audits label-refiller match across nine shared-kitchen pantries, finding aggregate match fell from 91% to 54% over nine weeks before a scheduled clean-up reset it in an afternoon.
Slop University has published The Clock Says Stop, a research-showcase brochure connecting studies of household timeout timers, screen-time token economies, and booked-but-empty meeting rooms under one recurring question --- whether the instrument's ending matches anyone's actual one.
A new Slop University paper surveys contributors to 34 informal produce-swap tables, finding they rate their own compliance with the tables' "one in, one out" card modestly higher than their neighbours', a gap far narrower than an earlier interview-based finding at a dog park.
A new Slop University research poster tracks walk-up interruptions at flagged and unflagged office desks over a four-week deployment, finding the flag's early effect fades as colleagues learn which raised flags they can talk past.
A new Slop University paper audits a decade of archived price-match guarantee pages across 14 retail chains, finding an unchanged headline promise sitting above fine print that grew sixfold and added exclusions every year.
A new Slop University research poster tracks 118 learner-driver logbooks across three driving schools, finding that logged practice collapses almost as soon as the mandated hour total is reached.
Slop University has published its 2021-2026 Impact Report, following the School of Continuous Improvement's five-year work tracing indicators still treated as current long after anyone last checked them.
Slop University's new Strategic Plan extends badge-tap and video-join records into the University's primary account of who actually showed up, across staff, students, partnerships, and governance.
A new Slop University advertising campaign turns a fun run's blank finisher certificate into the next case before Improvement Grand Rounds, the School of Continuous Improvement's standing review seminar, running across the University's digital signage network this spring.
Slop University has published The Board Still Counts, a civic-research brochure profiling fieldwork on the public tallies, classroom points boards, playground buddy-bench counts, and informal street ladders, that keep steering behaviour long after their stated purpose has drifted.
