Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
30 July 2026
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.
A new Slop University paper codes 19,847 instruction units from notes left for stand-in pet carers and finds the providers' care-plan completeness score measures form completion rather than care planning.
A new Slop University research poster gauges all four tyres at 4,318 minibus pre-departure checks and finds most lit dashboard warnings sit on tyres already within specification.
A new Slop University research poster audits the timetable panels at 246 suburban bus shelters after a network-wide service change and finds them disagreeing with the buses actually running at rates the transport authority's own currency indicator does not register.
29 July 2026
A new Slop University recruitment campaign for the Capability Sprints short-course line stages a pharmacy counter handover under a four-word headline, running across the University's landscape display panels in matched light and dark renderings.
Slop University has published The Tick Is Not the Milestone, a prospectus brochure connecting a child-health record book's tick to two published studies of the gap between what a mark reports and what actually happened, and to the postgraduate programmes that train students to ask the difference.
A new Slop University research poster surveys 214 active geocachers about why they withhold a maintenance flag on a container they themselves rate poor, finding reluctance to lower the cache's find rate for other seekers the most cited reason and under-reporting rising with a finder's own streak length.
A new Slop University research poster estimates what 612 recent caravan-park bookers will pay for a site's attributes, finding shade worth $16.40 a night against $5.20 for mains power, which carries the largest loading on the posted tariff.
A new Slop University research poster instruments 22 public amenity blocks for fourteen weeks, finding button-press rates unrelated to independently audited condition and 12.0 per cent of roster hours going to the two settings that carry 29.0 per cent of the audit warrant.
A new Slop University research poster surveys 1,206 public seats on foot and walks 96 resident-nominated routes across eight wards, finding a median seatless run of 780 metres and 63 per cent of recent installations landing where a seat already stood.
A new Slop University paper hand-sorts every container presented in 216 sessions at fourteen reverse vending points, correcting a published eligible-presentation success rate from 94.2 per cent to 79.1 per cent.
A new Slop University research poster interviews 41 people across nine junior sporting clubs and reads their fee schedules, rosters and budget papers, finding 46 per cent of the season's canteen hours worked by eleven households and no club keeping a count of the shifts nobody took.
