Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
16 July 2026
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement finds the Library's book-swap shelf turning over books at a steady clip even as its QR circulation tracker's own count collapses across a term, undermining the figures a pending utilisation review has cited.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Sort That Keeps Watching Itself, tying three published studies to its habit of treating every assignment as a claim under standing review.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a shared-umbrella stand's sign-out clipboard bears no reliable relationship to how many umbrellas actually leave the stand, with logging and borrowing moving in opposite directions by weather.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities retests a confidential-waste-bin sensor correlation on lecture-hall printer-paper trays, finding the auto-reorder rule it inspired predicts run-outs only weakly, and that printroom staff override it in most flagged weeks.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews campus bike users and a contracted technician about locating a working self-service repair station, finding the University's own station directory has listed two removed stations for two years.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities compares self-reported charter reasons against the Student Union pantry's volunteer removal log, finding the charter's own language rarely survives into what gets logged.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds the Recreation Centre's booking-fairness score held steady through a newly appointed algorithm owner's first term, even as towel-reservation and buddy-covering incidents nearly tripled.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement matches a term of dining-hall till tallies against the promised forty-dish rotation, finding three dishes absorb most of the demand and eleven are never rung.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds an unsupervised parcel-locker reassignment system met its wear-reduction target during a fourteen-week deployment, with much of the queueing it introduced absorbed by a handwritten corrections list of unknown authorship.
The Anticipatory Capability Fund awards Dr Fenna Okoro and Professor Verity Marris a grant to trigger the Oval's sunscreen-dispenser restocking from next-day heat forecasts rather than the empty-bottle reports that currently prompt it.
15 July 2026
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a pilot fill-level sensor on confidential-waste bins tracks weekly photocopier volume closely, while Facilities' fortnightly collection run has not changed once in three years.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tests whether the Main Quad wayfinding app's routing recommendation reduced wear on the lawn's long-standing desire path, finding the original track unchanged and a second, app-aligned track already forming beside it.
