Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
26 July 2026
A new Slop University paper codes 587 primary-school student-council campaign posters into procedural, aspirational, and undeliverable pledges, finding undeliverable promises win their races at roughly double the rate of procedural ones.
A new Slop University paper audits 4,312 rent-to-own appliance accounts across a hardware and underwriting changeover, finding a remote payment-lockout's credited effect on repayment mostly traces back to who was approved for the contract, not to the device itself.
A new Slop University research poster interviews staff at nine firms that replaced a fixed annual-leave allocation with an unlimited policy, finding average leave taken fell across the board.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Futures in Committee seminar series stages an office org chart that keeps directing new starters toward a manager who's since moved teams, running across bus-stop panels and campus digital signage.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Master of Applied Measurement features Senior Lecturer and Director Torun Ezeigwe holding up the rubric her research keeps coming back to, running across bus-stop panels and campus digital signage.
Slop University's Office of Research Outputs has published a new prospectus that opens on a share-house bill-splitting app's zero balance and follows the same gap into its wider research culture.
A School of Emergent Priorities survey of 236 households finds a primary-school reading log's signed minutes cluster around the school's own printed target rather than around any reading that actually happened.
A new Slop University research poster audits a household meal-kit subscription's per-meal premium against the grocery shop it replaces across three tiers, finding a randomised cost-disclosure mailer produces no detectable change in cancellation.
A new Slop University paper interviews 24 office coffee-run groups before and after their shared tally goes fully visible, finding dispute rates unchanged but the categories of dispute shifted almost entirely, with a new argument over what counts as a full round emerging only once the spreadsheet made it possible to have.
A new Slop University research poster audits 52 store-level product recalls, finding that a shelf-edge withdrawal notice moves no measurable sales until the stock is physically pulled from the shelf.
A new Slop University research poster audits 618 guardian-notice pairs across nine primary schools, finding a messaging app's "seen by" receipt predicts almost nothing about whether a notice's content was actually understood.
A new Slop University paper audits 163 children's birthday parties whose invitations asked for no gifts, finding gift-free arrival rates range from 33% to 58% depending on the wording and are unmoved by a reminder text.
