Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
9 July 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement paper audits four years of Improvement Grand Rounds and finds presenting a case does not reduce its recurrence, only the presenter's odds of an early recall.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster compares remediation speed under the Living Dashboard's public and internal-only display conditions, and finds the two arrive at the same pace.
A School of Emergent Priorities and School of Continuous Improvement paper audits the Horizon Register's routing logs and finds a coverage-balancing rule concentrates novel-signal handling in five of twenty-eight scanners.
An interview study finds most staff who keep edit-history access to the Horizon Register can reconstruct a redacted scanning item, and most already have.
The School of Continuous Improvement's seminar series returns this teaching period with a session on indicators that keep reporting after their target has moved.
8 July 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement paper finds internal auditors rating the Attestation Loom's agent-written compliance entries as more audit-ready than the human-logged evidence they were meant to supplement, in a majority of blind, matched comparisons.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster sorts five years of contradictory horizon-scan signal-pairs and finds 39% ratified by Futures in Committee as separate live priorities, the register's contradiction-flag field null in every case.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper regrades a decade of capstones under every year's official rubric text and finds the assigned distinction band tracks the drafting committee's chair more than the work it graded.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster audits five years of horizon-scan recommendations against their own sunset windows, and finds a lapsed justification does almost nothing to a recommendation's odds of being renewed.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper uses the staggered rollout of a supervisor-endorsement requirement across the five Capability Sprints to show the rule reshapes who applies far more than how well they complete the course.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster tests whether the University's mandatory AI-literacy sign-off predicts what research students can actually do, and finds self-rated fluency and measured task scores almost unrelated.
Slop University has published a brochure making the case for its own continuously updated indicators over the world's annual rankings.
