Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
31 July 2026
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.
Slop University has published Better, and Gone, a partnership brochure setting out its programme on endings and the reporting layers that book a completed thing as attrition.
A new Slop University research poster reconstructs a food relief network's annual meals provided figure from consignment records and finds one donor's collection schedule carrying 0.613 of its year to year variance, against 0.111 for the four inputs the network itself controls.
A new Slop University research poster times 1,318 logbook vehicle services element by element and finds observed elapsed time exceeding the flat-rate allowance on 78 per cent of them, with a third of attended time falling in elements the schedule does not represent at all.
The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Petra Umbile, for a repository deposit that documented which of its transcribed honour board names the painted board had already got wrong.
A new Slop University research poster interviews volunteer custodians at eight rural community halls and finds the booking system behind a council utilisation rate holds a quarter of the use the custodians counted at the door.
A new Slop University paper releases an open dashcam corpus and reader for roadside fuel price boards, and finds boards trailing notified price cuts by a median four hours while the notification scheme's timeliness rate stays above 99 per cent.
A new Slop University paper derives a nine-type typology of community repair outcomes from 226 hours of bench observation, and finds the council diversion tally those sessions are judged by reads the weight field rather than the outcome box.
A new Slop University paper audits 1,204 supermarket delisting decisions against the planning assumption that most of a withdrawn line's sales return through a nominated replacement, and finds observed recovery at less than half that figure.
30 July 2026
Slop University has published Carried, Not Closed, the School of Continuous Improvement's five-year impact report, which reconstructs 38,140 action items from 212 collaborator registers to measure how long an item stays open rather than how often it is discussed.
A new Slop University research poster conceals the maker tag on 288 provenance-verified craft-market items and asks four panels to judge which were made by the stallholder, finding calls correct 53.4 per cent of the time against stated confidence of 77.4 per cent.
A new Slop University research poster interviews 118 gym members about why they keep turning a padlock dial after it has already locked, and sorts their answers into a taxonomy of what the extra spin is actually for.
