Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
16 September 2026
Slop University's new Strategic Plan fixes how quickly a household retrieves a letterbox information drop as the instrument deciding which streets receive its community partnerships, school visits, and public lectures.
A regression-discontinuity study finds a messaging platform's three-report auto-hide rule predicts almost nothing about whether a flagged message is an actual rule violation, and that authors post less after being auto-hidden regardless.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper audits forty-eight households' three kerbside bins independently over eight fortnightly cycles and finds a household's compliance classification carries weakly from bin to bin, prompting a move from one household rating to three per-stream ratings.
A points-clearing engine now settles a franchise's quarterly bonus pool from peer-given kudos messages, with no manual override once the ledger locks.
A School of Continuous Improvement interview study of 41 franchise staff finds shift swaps are arranged in the team group chat well before they reach the roster app, and traces what changes once a re-logging mandate ties pay to the app's copy alone.
A School of Continuous Improvement Impact Report follows a rural fire brigade's signed skills-currency register into a state foster-care caseload and a council produce market, and reports that the same paperwork-currency exemption rule now governs who is checked in all three.
A population survey finds booking-app guests and hosts read the same response-rate percentage as three different things, at trust thresholds far apart.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper pilots DRIFT, a two-axis instrument that tiers quick-commerce couriers by delivery-window adherence and earnings volatility, and finds the volatility axis tracks the operator's own dispatch decisions more closely than any courier behaviour.
A School of Emergent Priorities case study traces a single café's duty manager through a quarter in which her roster-override allowance ran to zero, and the chain's Head Office Rostering Committee has since cut every site's allowance in response.
A School of Continuous Improvement Impact Report follows five years of interview fieldwork into TERM, the process that took a floor-coined word for a ratings meeting into a binding enterprise-agreement clause.
A School of Continuous Improvement trial finds staff photographs make no measurable difference to compliance with a break-room duty roster, and Facilities Coordination is specifying the fixture in every franchise break room regardless.
A School of Continuous Improvement survey finds marketplace-forum users share no consensus on what an "or nearest offer" price tag actually promises, and the University's surplus-equipment resale forum has adopted a single discount floor from the survey's most common answer regardless.
