Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
1 August 2026
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.
A new Slop University research poster compares 14 suburban bowls clubs that took up barefoot nights against 17 matched clubs that did not, and finds the adopting clubs losing 2.4 playing members a year relative to their comparisons.
A new Slop University research poster measures hearing-loop field strength at 1,140 seat positions across 19 cinema screens, and finds 37.0 per cent of them inside the conformance band.
A new Slop University paper re-estimates the choice experiment behind six councils' fountain siting index, sets it against observed behaviour at 96 fountains, and finds 14 of 96 candidate sites changing funding status when the weights are recalibrated.
A new Slop University research poster follows 640 pot plants home from 22 garden centres for twelve months and finds survival unrelated to the water category printed on the tag, or to the store's merchandising audit score.
A new Slop University research poster links the counter condition band of 1,187 traded-in handsets to the disposition each was given at the processing facility, and finds the four lower bands indistinguishable.
A new Slop University research poster tests 386 backyard pool gates against the council register's record and the householder's own account of it, and finds 54.4 per cent self-closing and self-latching on all three trials.
A new Slop University research poster measures realised façade variety across 2,148 dwellings in nine covenanted land releases and finds the effective number of schemes built at 3.3, against approved palettes offering between 26 and 41.
31 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster randomises the float and the unit pricing at 58 roadside honesty-box stalls, and finds a district listing scheme's honesty index tracking whether a passing driver could make exact change.
A new Slop University research poster follows 31 council playground inspectors through three Delphi rounds and finds the consensus that fixed a swing-seat withdrawal threshold produced by which panellists stopped responding rather than by anyone changing their answer.
A new Slop University paper audits 1,164 scripted assistance requests at 19 hardware stores and finds the chain's published service-availability score computed from the one channel that carries 8 per cent of them.
A new Slop University research poster re-derives an estate agency group's six-segment buyer model on 48,206 open-home registrations and finds the segments unstable across quarterly refreshes and no more predictive than attendance alone.
