Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
13 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews Facilities staff about who actually issues and reclaims keys for the University's shared cabinets, finding the person doing that work matches the register's own accountable-owner listing for barely one cabinet in five.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement codes a winter's worth of desk heaters and fans against their own registration ledger, finding active tags routinely outlive the appliances they were issued to.
Slop University has published a new prospectus brochure built around its campus tour, walking prospective students past the same live instruments researchers use, from the Horizon Register to the Adaptive Metrics Lab's Living Dashboard.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits the Library's four-stage Lost & Found disposal register against a physical stock-take of the same items, tracing a persistent gap to a front-desk workaround the register cannot see.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits the campus bike-share scheme's helmet-return bins against a 12-week hand count, finding the RFID sensor's reported availability holds near capacity while the bins themselves run down.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a covered bike-rack bank sited by the Horizon Register's demand forecast sits mostly empty, while cyclists cite proximity to where they are actually headed, not the forecast, for where they park.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits the campus makerspace's 3D-printer induction sign-off sheet against its own checklist revision log, finding most ledger-valid signatures certify a version already retired.
Slop University's new Strategic Plan commits the institution to naming one accountable steward for every asset, process, and shared resource it holds, retiring "shared responsibility" as an institutional default.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement deploys a jam-and-fill sensor on the University Library's after-hours book-return chute, then traces how its alert log was cited by Facilities' staffing review as evidence of the patron demand it was never built to measure.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a pedestrian-crossing button's press count moves independently of the signal it is wired to, even as the University's Traffic Advisory Committee keeps citing the tally as pedestrian demand for a second crossing.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement tests whether Improvement Grand Rounds' paper sign-in sheet is actually harder to fake than the tap-card system it replaced, and finds the retired card reader, still quietly logging, at least as informative.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities checks the loading dock's new roller-door sensor timer against drivers' own paper dockets, finding it consistently reports less time than delivery crews actually spent unloading.
