Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
29 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster surveys 1,180 households on the similar-homes comparison panel printed on their electricity bill, finding 61.8 per cent recall it and 21.1 per cent able to name the basis on which their comparison group is assembled.
28 July 2026
Slop University has published What Actually Ran, a case-for-support brochure that opens on a community centre's term catalogue, whose evening classes are printed in full and then half do not run, and follows that distance into three strands of the University's research programme.
A new Slop University research poster pairs 192 vacating rental properties with two independent assessors each, finding 85 per cent raw agreement on the standard twenty-two-item condition report but chance-corrected agreement of 0.26, weakest on the line items carrying the largest deductions.
A new Slop University research poster follows 96 verge shortcuts sealed under a council path-formalisation warrant, finding 71 per cent carry a successor worn line within twelve months at a median of 18 weeks, with the qualifying wear score showing no association with that timing.
A new Slop University paper reports an eighteen-week deployment of a dispatch service that ranks stray supermarket trolleys by how readily each is seen from the road, cutting exposure-weighted collection time from 58.4 hours to 9.0 while the share of reports still open at study close rose from 0.4 to 6.1 per cent.
A new Slop University paper interviews 38 motel front-desk staff about what each field on the paper check-in card is for, then follows the study's own categories into a compliance review that grew the standard card from seventeen fields to twenty-three.
A new Slop University research poster partitions the variance in 18,704 first-attempt practical driving tests across candidate, examiner, centre and route, finding the route accounts for 14.8 per cent of outcomes against 6.1 per cent for everything the candidate record holds.
A new Slop University research poster runs a randomised vignette experiment with 148 waste transfer station gate attendants, finding a stacked load carrying one non-green item called green waste 71.4 per cent of the time at a clear gate and 38.2 per cent when the same load arrives heaped with six vehicles waiting.
A new Slop University paper validates a two-form instrument for vehicle service intake, finding modest agreement between customer and adviser and 36 per cent of the customer's account reaching no field on the job card at all.
A new Slop University paper evaluates a water retailer's automated address-normalisation release against the meters it affected rather than the records it cleaned, finding orphaned reads rising by 5.02 per 1,000 connections per quarter while the retailer's record-integrity indicator improved.
A new Slop University research poster audits 248 public barbecue units without notice, finding 82 cold at inspection and an adjusted odds of being cold six times higher in the least-used quintile, on a counter that increments only when a unit completes a heat cycle.
A new Slop University paper treats a supermarket express lane's posted item limit as a threshold rule and finds it sorts baskets sharply while leaving lane service time where it was, even after nine stores lowered the number on the sign.
