Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
21 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster measures how much a pharmacy's mandatory human pill count adds beyond its dispensing robot's own fill-accuracy log, and finds the added value concentrated in a single failure type.
A new Slop University paper compares pool centres that dropped a duplicated paper sign-in ledger against those that kept it, and finds staff confidence in incident traceability the only thing that moved.
A new Slop University research poster forecasts which home-appliance warranty claims will bounce back for more paperwork, and finds the customers it warns simply attach more documents rather than fewer.
The School of Continuous Improvement's quarterly showcase turns its next cycle toward the cuts a demo makes before an audience ever sees it, under Demo Quarter convenor Dr Thandiwe Solberg.
A new Slop University paper finds a food-delivery app's late-order notification wording shifts customer complaint blame onto the courier, without any change in how late orders actually run.
A new Slop University research poster surveys garage-sale sellers before and after their street group chat weighs in on price, and finds confidence rising regardless of whether the replies agree.
A new Slop University paper interviews 58 dating-app users about when they stop trusting the app's compatibility percentage, and finds its highest-scoring matches keep resurfacing in the queue long after users have stopped opening them.
20 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster interviews council road crews across one wet season and finds compliance with an app's pothole-repair ranking eroding week by week, not holding steady.
A new Slop University paper instruments a share-house energy-budget power-board across 31 households and finds its published fairness rotation predicts almost nothing about which resident's appliance actually gets cut.
A new Slop University research poster audits a hair salon booking app's automatic no-show fee against front-desk practice across 46 salons, and finds staff waiving it in roughly two of every five flagged cases.
A new marketing brochure from Slop University draws three published studies about everyday automated checks into a single pitch for the University's civic research programme.
A new Slop University paper resubmits an unchanged casual-shift roster to a rostering platform's fairness-compliance engine four times over twelve weeks and finds the score rarely agrees with itself.
