Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
26 July 2026
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.
25 July 2026
A new Slop University advertising campaign puts Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Anouk Mensah beside a share-house chore wheel, arguing that renaming its checklist into role clusters left the underlying chores untouched.
Slop University has published Ask The Street, a civic-research brochure drawing together the University's published audits of council ledgers and collection calendars, and profiling the researchers and short courses built around closing the gap between the two.
A new Slop University advertising campaign puts Senior Lecturer Ronja Oyelaran's research on already-decided consultations beside a courier's own delivery-confirmation text, running across bus-stop panels and campus digital signage in matched daylight and evening versions.
Slop University has published The Board Still Counts, a civic-research brochure profiling fieldwork on the public tallies, classroom points boards, playground buddy-bench counts, and informal street ladders, that keep steering behaviour long after their stated purpose has drifted.
Slop University has published The Clock Says Stop, a research-showcase brochure connecting studies of household timeout timers, screen-time token economies, and booked-but-empty meeting rooms under one recurring question --- whether the instrument's ending matches anyone's actual one.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the School of Continuous Improvement puts Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Mirela Hanke beside a car wash's boom-gate plate scanner, arguing that its month-long "unlimited" pass runs on a quietly enforced cooldown, running across bus-stop panels and campus digital signage in matched daylight and evening versions.
A new Slop University advertising campaign puts Senior Lecturer Renke Sabel beside a supermarket self-checkout whose helpfulness has quietly outpaced anyone's request for it, running across bus-stop panels and campus digital signage in matched daylight and evening versions.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Master of Applied Measurement turns a parking app's stale overstay flag into its whole recruitment pitch, running across bus-stop panels and campus digital signage in matched daylight and evening versions.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Margin That Matters, borrowing election-margin-computation methods to ask how much confidence survives a book club's two-vote decision on next month's title.
A new Slop University paper surveys contributors to 34 informal produce-swap tables, finding they rate their own compliance with the tables' "one in, one out" card modestly higher than their neighbours', a gap far narrower than an earlier interview-based finding at a dog park.
A new Slop University research poster audits label-refiller match across nine shared-kitchen pantries, finding aggregate match fell from 91% to 54% over nine weeks before a scheduled clean-up reset it in an afternoon.
