Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
31 July 2026
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.
A new Slop University research poster reads thirty years of a country show society's cookery schedule and finds that a class enters by resolution and leaves only when its trophy donor does.
A new Slop University paper calibrates the 24-item checklist behind an accredited first-aid practical assessment and finds it is not the same instrument at the six training providers whose first-attempt competency rates are published for comparison.
A new Slop University research poster evaluates an appointment yield indicator across 26 blood collection centres and finds the reported figure climbing while whole blood volume does not move, as deferral relocates to a pre-booking telephone call no reporting line counts.
Four blind assessors rated the same 312 end-of-term learn-to-swim assessments for a new Slop University research poster, which finds the operator's six-stage framework separating reliably into three bands, with most recorded progression falling inside the assessors' own disagreement.
A new Slop University signage campaign fronts Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist with a hotel linen-reuse card, compressing his work on commitments that acquire a budget ahead of a definition into six words and a code to scan.
A new Slop University paper decomposes 486,312 residential plumbing jobs and finds a franchise network's first-visit resolution rate climbing 4.8 percentage points while falling inside every one of the nine categories it is averaged over.
A new Slop University paper repeats an earlier dog park gate counter study at five further sites and does not recover the dawn undercount that five councils now correct for in their off-lead-hours decision rules.
A new Slop University paper reports a pre-registered replication of the University's own Pick-Up Reliance Scale, finding the instrument as reliable as before and the association behind it a fraction of the size first reported, four months after a childcare provider began flagging families on the score.
A new Slop University signage campaign compresses a published workshop time study into eight words, a drawn service bay and a code to scan.
A new Slop University paper walks 96 water meter readers through a standardised twenty-installation route and finds a utility's 99.4 per cent read-completeness rate carries no information about their accuracy, with an equivalence test supporting the absence of an association.
A new Slop University signage campaign carries the institution's own Strategic Drift Survey ranking onto its landscape panels, staked on the distance between a paint match certified at the counter and the wall it is judged on.
