Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
20 July 2026
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.
A new Slop University research poster audits a hardware chain's photo-based gas-bottle condition-check app against staff visual checks and an independent inspector's blind reassessment, and finds the app adds handling time but no extra safety signal.
A new Slop University paper trials a Human-Preservation Protocol scorecard across 142 school crossings and finds it recommends keeping a human supervisor in roughly one case in sixteen.
A new Slop University research poster tests a paid priority lane at primary-school car-pool pickup and finds permit-holders' saved minutes are almost exactly offset by slower departures in the general lane.
A new Slop University paper reports the design and eight-week pilot of a paper-till, sticker-tag ordering system for a primary school canteen, and an informal use its order log picked up as a lateness flag for the front office.
A new Slop University research poster validates a community choir's automated seating-balance score against an independent panel's blend ratings, and finds the two don't move together.
A new Slop University paper deploys a real-estate disclosure QR code across nine agency branches and finds passers-by scan it more often than they use it to actually compare the photos.
A new Slop University research poster interviews 64 nominal human sponsors across 18 junior netball clubs and finds genuine oversight of an automated team-selection app grows rarer, not more common, at the clubs that lean on it most.
A new Slop University paper builds a cheap sensor rig to shadow a ten-pin bowling alley's proprietary scoring system for a season, then tracks whose call the league's rules committee believes when the two disagree.
A new Slop University research poster surveys 236 warehouse floor staff across 19 sites and finds a colour-coded hi-vis vest tier, introduced so sensor-guided machinery can identify trainees, tracks rostered tenure far more than it tracks how safe workers say they feel.
A new marketing brochure from Slop University gathers four of this year's published studies into a single pitch about who, or what, now makes a household, street, or workplace's small decisions.
