Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
28 July 2026
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.
A new Slop University research poster back-translates the six community-language versions of a council's community-hall hire conditions, finding 43 of 186 clause-instances diverge from the source and that the divergence tracks which hirers are later pulled up.
A new Slop University research poster reports a pre-registered cluster-randomised trial of plain-language development notices across nine wards, finding sizeable gains in recall and comprehension alongside a difference of 0.02 submissions per notified property.
A new Slop University signage campaign fronts Dr Solveig Adeyemi with a warning cone left standing long after the spill, reducing her work on unreported incidents to a four-word headline, an attribution and a code to scan.
A new Slop University paper builds a seven-class taxonomy of improvised repair from 1,462 instances photographed across 214 shared community facilities, then follows it into one portfolio's maintenance system, where median time to closure fell from 34 days to six.
The Anticipatory Capability Fund awards Dr Marek Solheim and Dr Lindiwe Achterberg a grant to build a register that assigns each of a suburb's temporary detour signs a retirement date at the moment it goes up, logged against the work order that justified it.
A new Slop University research poster costs a council's street-tree watering-bag rounds at $318 per additional tree surviving two summers, and finds the canopy target the council reports against books only the cost per tree planted.
A new Slop University research poster codes the end state of 1,184 raffle books issued for nine primary-school fetes, finding that the share of books returned in any state runs 33 percentage points ahead of the share that returned with money in them.
A new Slop University paper reports a pre-registered stepped-wedge trial of quarterly rooftop-solar washing at forty community sports clubs, finding an effect of 0.11 percentage points against equivalence bounds fixed before the first wash.
A new Slop University signage campaign reduces a published finding about flat-pack assembly to a seven-word headline, a citation and a QR code, running in matched light and dark renderings on the University's portrait display panels.
27 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster interviews 156 staff across nine organisations once their out-of-office auto-reply has run past its own stated return date, coding their reasons into a five-category taxonomy and finding the category offered predicts the overrun already banked, not what remains.
A new Slop University paper follows a home-repair platform's staggered switch to a fourteen-day satisfaction prompt, finding ratings fall by more than half a point on a five-point scale while the platform's own ninety-day repeat-callback record does not move.
