Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
19 July 2026
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 214 households on whether completing a fridge-mounted school-holiday "reset chart" changes anything about the first week back at school.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks 189 community garden allotment handovers to test whether a committee's handover form predicts what a successor actually learns, and finds, against the University's own pattern, that it does.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 96 tool-library borrowers to find out how much of a season's real circulation a front-desk return-rate score never sees.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 64 strata residents to find out what a five-minute compliance window is actually measuring once residents stop reading the notification it counts.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a pub-trivia circuit's laminated "phones away" honour sign made no measurable difference to disputed-answer rates across a season of monitored rounds.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a gym chain's booking-reliability score sharply lifted class sign-ups without changing how many members actually showed up, the gap traced to cancellations timed just outside the score's penalty window.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds that a taped-up street notice's printed end date makes no measurable difference to when it's actually taken down.
18 July 2026
A blind audit of a warehouse handheld scanner's live confidence score finds it predicts a picker's time since retraining far better than it predicts their actual errors.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities catalogues 341 informal parking-space claim-objects across eleven suburbs, finding survival time before a claim is first contested ranges from a four-day median for road cones to nineteen days for staked-rope claims.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Watch Changes Hands, tracing a pool's drowning alarm, a dog park's compliance sign, and a council's hard-rubbish tally through three published studies of what changes once an instrument takes over the watching.
Futures in Committee, the School of Emergent Priorities' seminar series, turns this teaching period to the Horizon Register's own admissions and retirements, with Dr Fenna Okoro presenting.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 193 body-corporate chairs whose precautionary rule reached its own twelve-month review, finding most rules continued with no motion recorded and few chairs could name any evidence considered beforehand.
