Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
17 September 2026
Dr Runa Adegoke's SLOT eye-tracking instrument now grades every supermarket shelf-edge label, and a regional supplier-shelf-space agreement uses its verdict to decide which products earn eye-level space, the subject of a new Slop University signage campaign.
A new Slop University research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities scores three suburban streets' bin-night kerbside readiness under KERB, a five-level maturity model, and reports that two streets have adopted its shared-storage reassignment rule as standing practice.
A new Slop University marketing campaign profiles Lecturer Lindiwe Achterberg's Counter Rapport Index, an eighteen-month checkout-side pilot that found no relationship between its warmth score and return visits or complaints, now renewed into a third provisional funding cycle.
A new Slop University marketing campaign profiles Lecturer Marek Solheim's MERIT accreditation system, now the gate a suburban sports club clears before adding a name to its honour board.
A new Slop University paper reports that a continuous-improvement checklist introduced to standardise coffee-cart service measurably reduced staff's own sense of judgement over the line, a result the University is answering by extending the checklist further.
Slop University reports that a suburban sports club's training-load self-report scale held flat under the escalation trigger that inflated an office wellbeing score, and the club is keeping the trigger regardless.
16 September 2026
A Slop University paper reports that the single focus score assigned to an open-plan floor is, on the survey's evidence, averaging together two different working days.
A new Slop University signage campaign profiles Senior Lecturer Thandiwe Solberg's case study of one meeting-room sign-up sheet, whose fairness tally read cleanest once teams simply stopped signing it.
A new Slop University marketing poster features Senior Research Fellow Sten Okwuosa's case study of a junior football club, where a parents' rotating encouragement ballot has quietly become the record that names next season's captains.
A new Slop University brochure profiles Senior Lecturer Fenna Okoro's correspondence-classification pipeline, which promotes a council's routine mail into its own live risk register and gates removal on a full council vote.
A new Slop University paper from the School of Emergent Priorities develops a five-level maturity model for allotment-society waiting-list administration, and reports that the region's allotments federation now gates new-plot allocation priority on the score despite finding no link to how quickly a forfeited plot is actually recovered.
A University finding about pinned group-chat rules fails to reproduce in a new setting, and the program responsible widens its register anyway.
