Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
30 July 2026
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.
A new Slop University paper recovers the attempt-level log behind a junior sports association's volunteer umpire accreditation record and re-scores it four ways, finding accreditation rates between 39.6 and 98.6 per cent in the same data.
A new Slop University research poster recovers the observed interval between dental check-ups at 14 suburban practices and finds a recall adherence rate that improves while the intervals it stands for lengthen.
A new Slop University research poster estimates the unlit streetlights across 62 residential streets from three incomplete records, finding an estimated 44.2 per cent of dark lamps on no list at all.
A new Slop University paper simulates 72 configurations of a council waste transfer station and finds none that meets its published six-minute mean wait, because a single weighbridge cannot clear the Saturday morning peak.
A new Slop University paper measures 3,148 household to school journeys both ways and finds the walked route exceeds the scheme's straight line by a mean 0.83 km, reclassifying 412 of them.
A new Slop University paper transcribes 121 painted honour boards across 68 volunteer-run halls and links them to 6,013 independently verified office-bearer role-years, finding 19.0 per cent absent from the wall and omission tracking how much room the board has left.
A new institutional review turns Evaluation of Evaluation's own audit method on the program that invented it, under convenor Dr Dagny Okafor.
A new Slop University paper reconciles the volunteer-hours ledger behind a council maintenance rebate against direct observation of 46 community sports club working bees, finding that signed hours and observed on-task hours rank the clubs differently.
Slop University has published Most Rules Run on Exceptions, a case-for-support brochure that opens at a suburban school gate and follows the note from home into four published studies of what an organisation's exceptions actually do.
A new Slop University research poster fits a share-house aquarium with a telemetric automatic feeder mid-trial, tracking whether replacing its honesty-log whiteboard narrows the gap between what gets logged and what actually reaches the fish.
A new Slop University paper models 4,918 concealed-label try-on judgements over 246 garments and finds the retailer nearly as predictive of fit as the size printed on the tag.
